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San Benito County’s “Other Post-Employment Benefit Program” – or OPEB, pronounced oh-peb – is a perfect example of a generous and expensive program that was a lot easier to get into than it will be to escape.

City officials have scheduled a meeting with concerned neighborhood residents complaining about elevated noise coming from the century-old San Benito Foods tomato cannery. It appeared, meanwhile, that the reverberating cannery sounds heard throughout parts of downtown in recent weeks may have subsided Monday after the Free Lance raised questions to city and San Benito Foods officials.

There's only one earmark Chuck DeVore, conservative Republican

State attorney general consulted over 400 block   The Hollister City Council is still on recess, but there’s activity at city hall. City Clerk Tom Graves is validating signatures for the 400 block petition that Mayor Ignacio Velazquez submitted for certification earlier this month, after leading...

County supervisors Tuesday considered whether to place a transient occupancy tax – or “hotel tax” – on the November 2014 general election ballot.

At the San Benito County Board of Supervisors meeting on

The Hollister City Council on Monday unanimously approved a $50,000 allocation to the San Benito County Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau for tourism efforts.

The San Benito County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to

The Hollister Redevelopment Agency's project list just got a

Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, will host a town hall meeting on Thursday to discuss the state budget and its local impact, according to a statement from his office.