Politics

City Councilman Doug Emerson contends that the brother of Supervisor Robert Rivas threatened to have his sibling reverse a vote for a $3.4 million fire contract if the Hollister official did not prompt a cancellation to San Juan Bautista’s recent town hall meeting over the proposed merger.

Snow fell in the valley, more is expected Saturday and the

Hollister City Council members on Monday night put off an idea

Hollister residents will be able to take advantage of clean, renewable energy without having to mount solar hardware on their homes starting in spring 2018. Council members Monday unanimously approved a resolution that allows local residents to choose where they get their energy. Monterey Bay Community...

Before the county board OK'd placing Measure J on the ballot, supervisors had the option of delaying the process to conduct an economic analysis but chose to bypass that choice and send the proposal to voters. Without a county economic report to precede the November ballot decision – whether to ban hydraulic fracturing, cyclic steaming and acidizing as extraction techniques along with all petroleum activities in rural residential zones near the two cities – the local farm bureau went ahead and conducted a study of its own.

After 20 years in the making, it will bridge the gap needed to

Investigators said a cup of coffee could have caused a crash

At least in some areas of downtown, drivers may no longer have to worry about citations if they park for longer than two hours.