Legal question stalls growth referendum
Supporters of the referendum to repeal the controversial
Gavilan board supports district changes
Gavilan College trustees have supported making changes to the way voters elect them, a trustee confirmed.
Elections office nears end of unofficial tally
With just about 400 provisional ballots left to count – and a handful of regular ballots that machines could not read – there are few contested races remaining.
Post-RDA, city moves to keep foreclosed home as affordable
The Hollister Redevelopment Agency may be defunct, but that doesn’t mean its functions all went away with it.
With some residents upset, county pulls support for highway name change
San Benito County supervisors reversed course this week on their support of changing the name of Airline Highway to Pinnacles National Park Highway in an effort to spur tourism in the county for the recently upgraded national park.
County forgoes program that would pinch rural owners
The San Benito County Board of Supervisors decided against implementing a change to the Williamson Act that would have brought in $230,000 in revenue to the county coffers while decreasing property tax savings by 10 percent for rural landowners who have contracts within the provision that allows for discounted tax rates in prime agricultural regions.
Officials’ views vary on possible police merger
Hollister council members and county supervisors expressed a variety of perspectives about a consultant's report recommending that the two governments do not fully consolidate law enforcement agencies despite an estimated $316,000 in savings.














