Politics

The Hollister City Council on Monday night will consider placing $50,000 from hotel tax revenue in a special fund for use on tourism.

Boosted by big increases in vegetable production, San Benito County’s agriculture industry earned record revenues in 2013 and eclipsed $300 million in value for the first time.

With county supervisors holding a retreat-style meeting Tuesday in a conference room at the behavioral health department office, Board Chairman Jaime De La Cruz ensured that every resident in attendance will get a chance to watch the proceeding or else it would be moved to another location.

The Aromas Water District has been lauded by an outside organization for its transparency.

At exactly 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, the LESSALT Treatment Plant went

County supervisors expressed serious concern with the future of

Longtime congresswoman Zoe Lofgren is locked in a contentious battle with Muwekma Ohlone tribal leader Charlene Nijmeh and former San Benito County Supervisor Peter Hernandez that will be decided in November, when the two highest primary vote getters face off. The normally routine business of...

With the long arm of the newly created Morgan Hill oversight board threatening to lay claim to what’s left of the former redevelopment agency’s 2008 bond proceeds, the city council is poised to quickly spend the remnants of the $110 million in loans to spruce up the downtown. 

Art & Rebellion, a Santa Cruz-based self-described resistance group, staged a peaceful theatrical protest at Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company in Hollister on Aug. 21.  Garbed in brilliant colors, goofy hats, glittery jackets, bright red noses and curly wigs, waving umbrellas, batons and plungers, the...