Politics

County officials have ordered work to stop at the solar farm at Panoche Valley after negotiations broke down with operator ConEdison Development. “They’re also submitting for a project down in San Bernardino,” Board Chairman Jaime De La Cruz said by phone last week. “We’re sending...

San Benito County officials have requested an audit and investigation services from the state controller’s office after a recent fraud incident brought the county’s total known loss of public funds to theft or embezzlement to more than $1.1 million in recent years.  Concerned that there...

San Benito County employees have not been calling local residents to urge them to vote a certain way in the Nov. 3 election, despite what some voters have reported in recent complaints.

Council members put off adjusting timing of impact fees paid by the developers of a new hotel and new mixed-use project Monday after the city manager urged a delay so he could come back with broader programs potentially affecting other new businesses as well.

Some part-time teachers at Gavilan College are outraged that their hourly pay—and often their courses—are being cut while top administrators receive bonuses and increasing salaries.

Hollister and San Benito County officials are set to host a joint meeting to discuss options on a potential sales-tax initiative. San Juan Bautista council members are on board as well.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has won re-election, easily brushing

Realizing the opportunity and room for growth in both the

With vote by mail ballots received through Sunday counted and all precincts reporting, county election officials expect there are still between 4,500 and 5,500 outstanding vote-by-mail ballots that arrived Monday and Tuesday of this week and might sway the results of some of the closer races.

Gavilan College President Steve Kinsella announced plans to retire near the end of June 2016, according to an email from the college board chairman.