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After a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras will return to the city’s downtown for Memorial Day weekend in 2022, according to organizers. The two-day outdoor food, art and music festival will take place May 28-29, centering on...

Local firefighters spent the night battling a massive scrap wood fire in Hollister Sunday, according to authorities. The Hollister Fire Department responded to RJR Recycling, 1771 San Felipe Road, on a report of a fire at 9:47pm May 2, according to Battalion Chief Charlie Bedolla....

The San Benito County Board of Supervisors formally suspended negotiations with the City of Hollister for the renewal of a contract for fire services.  The 3-2 vote at the board’s April 22 meeting followed the Hollister City Council’s rejection the previous evening of the terms...

La Villa de Jerez restaurant is typically packed on the weekends with customers waiting to get a bowl, or maybe two, of its famous menudo.

Government, business and nonprofit leaders around San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties staged the 2025 State of the Region Oct. 17 at CSU Monterey Bay to discuss a vast list of topics from healthcare and air mobility to hospitality, tourism, advances in the...

The San Benito County Arts Council is seeking local artists or artist teams to submit their qualifications to create and install a mural on one of five utility boxes along Highway 25 in Hollister.  This project is part of a State Highway Beautification Project, sponsored...

San Benito High lacrosse coach Chris Branon acknowledged the team might go the entire season without earning a victory. At 0-9 entering their April 20 Pacific Coast League match against Aptos High, conventional wisdom would have it that there have been few things to...

The Hollister Police Department arrested a local transient for vandalism of city property and assault on a police officer that included the use of a five-foot long bamboo staff.        Hollister resident Raymundo Lucas Lucatero Jr., 26, was booked on charges of felony vandalism, two counts...

In an effort to solidify their emergency response coordination strategies as reports of potentially perilous accidental gas line damage increase in the tri-county region, PG&E and local public safety agencies held a joint safety drill at Hollister Municipal Airport on Aug. 24. During the drill,...

San Benito County Public Health officials are reporting another death due to Covid-19, causing the death count to jump a second time this week.  As of Oct. 7, county officials reported a 13th death and 1,372 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the county....