Politics

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,”...

State Senator Anthony Cannella is set to term out next year, potentially leaving the San Benito representative’s seat open to a familiar face: Monterey County Supervisor and former State Assemblyman Luis Alejo. Alejo announced this week that he intends to open an exploratory committee to...

County officials have ordered work to stop at the solar farm at Panoche Valley after negotiations broke down with operator ConEdison Development. “They’re also submitting for a project down in San Bernardino,” Board Chairman Jaime De La Cruz said by phone last week. “We’re sending...

County residents affected by winter flooding spoke during Tuesday’s San Benito County Board of Supervisors meeting as officials discussed how to pay to fix a broken levee system. Unrelenting rainfall last winter overwhelmed a Pacheco Creek levee system, flooding country roads and creating havoc for...

President Donald Trump’s decision last week to eliminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program sparked fear and fury across the nation, but Hollister institutions stood united. “The recent announcement heightened the deep sense of responsibility many of us at the college feel towards...

Summer may be coming to a close, but talk continues about the need for a public pool in Hollister and how it should be funded. “What we’re here for today is to ask the city and county to include in their impact fees monies...

The San Benito County Board of Supervisors Tuesday took one step closer to the creation of the Nash Road bypass. Supervisors approved a $153,140 contract with Santa Cruz-based Mesiti-Miller Engineering for design services related to the bypass. The contract defines the period of work from...

The San Benito County department in charge of street repair has been as rocky as the roads it oversees. Six months ago the director of the Resource Management Agency abruptly resigned and was replaced by a pair of consultants. That move by county policy...

The pot leaf is a four-leaf clover for cannabis entrepreneurs who want to do business in Hollister. City policymakers Tuesday voted to hear numerous medical cannabis applicants at a future meeting in October and to direct city staff to begin recruiting for pot-related personnel....

City leaders Tuesday inched closer to deciding the fate of the vacant 400 block in downtown Hollister. In closed session at the Hollister City Council meeting, council members decided to vote on Mayor Ignacio Velazquez’s successful petition to halt development on the city-owned parcel...