Politics

Hollister council members Tuesday put their support behind a downtown traffic study—including an extensive list of improvements—but some officials warned how the plan might take many years to complete.

Gonzales falls to Velasquez in District 5 Supervisor race

San Juan Bautista officials in August reinstated a long-held ban against franchise businesses, but an exemption in that 2007 version of the law allows the city to approve franchise businesses such as the proposed, debated gas station at Windmill Market, the city manager told the Free Lance.

The San Juan Bautista City Council Tuesday selected former Gilroy Interim City Manager Ed Tewes to serve as the city’s top administrator. “I was approached with the opportunity to help you and help the staff, and it’s clear there’s no shortage of projects and issues,”...

The San Juan Bautista City Council is set to consider whether to donate money to the "Save San Juan Valley" lawsuit against Caltrans' plans for Highway 156 expansion.

Paso Robles' Ed Hazard believes the public and politicians haven't given enough attention to rights of royalty and mineral rights owners in local-level debates like the one in San Benito County over Measure J. Kathy Spencer from the Bitterwater area has another perspective and worries her family members could lose control of their property because an oil company owns mineral rights on 440 acres of their land.

Despite being drenched with days of near-constant rain and

The San Benito County Board of Supervisors has announced Karen Overstreet as the new agricultural commissioner and sealer of weights and measures.