Politics

The San Benito County supervisors gave direction to the county parks and recreation commissioners to begin hosting public meetings to look at options for a community services district that would fund future projects.

The embattled Purple Cross Rx medical marijuana dispensary on Bolsa Road - which this week was sued by the county in an effort to get it to close its doors for good - is hoping to expand its business model by marketing marijuana vending machines to pharmacies, medical facilities and dispensaries throughout California.

Hollister officials are weighing two bids from developers - one proposing to build a Denny's restaurant and the other a Walgreens store - to buy a city-owned plot on McCray Street.

The possibility of Highway 152 becoming a toll road has some in the ag industry worried about what it would mean for business.

A water main broke that broke Thursday on Fourth Street near the sheriff’s office headquarters will indefinitely shut off a portion of the busy road – while another main later failed on the west side – becoming the latest in a series of more than a dozen malfunctions for the downtown system in recent years.

A water main broke on Fourth Street Thursday night near the sheriff’s office headquarters and will shut off a portion of the busy road for an indefinite amount of time.

Sonny Flores to oppose two-term Supervisor Jaime De La Cruz in

Sonny Flores, the current board president for the San Benito County Water District, has pulled papers from the elections office indicating intentions to run against Supervisor Jaime De La Cruz for his District 5 seat.

Third carrier in Hollister stirs battle of words among taxi

California's $98.5-billion bullet train project has become "increasingly risky" because of uncertainty about where the money will come from to finish even the first phase, the state auditor warned Tuesday.