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A Hollister staff report from City Manager Bill Avera addressed two 2016 wastewater spills by stressing that less than 39,000 gallons of effluent reached the San Benito River bed.

County supervisors Tuesday received an update on local flooding related to recent rainfall, with an emergency services official telling the board that both rain and a failing levee caused damage set to cost “millions” of dollars.

County supervisors Tuesday morning will receive an updated report on flooding related to Pacheco Creek.

The San Benito County Office of Emergency Services Friday afternoon issued an evacuation for the Lovers Lane area.

Congressman Jimmy Panetta on Friday released a statement on President Donald Trump’s inauguration and speech.

A state water board report on Hollister’s two summer sewage spills notes how the city potentially violated the federal Clean Water Act and 10 state violations.

A Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board official Thursday laid out the process ahead in the investigation of Hollister for two sewage spills totaling nearly a million gallons into the local river bed.

A state water board issued Hollister a notice of violation last week related to two 2016 sewage spills discharged into the San Benito River, according to a document obtained by the Free Lance.

County supervisors received a local flooding report Tuesday during a special meeting.

San Benito High School's recently resigned superintendent is accused of brandishing a gun at a man parked in a car outside his house, while the incident was Oct. 22 before the official's arrest in mid-December.