Politics

The San Benito County District Attorney's Office reached civil settlement with PG&E over gas leak in February 2014 that caused illnesses at a nearby school, according to the California District Attorney's Association. In the settlement PG&E will pay $250,000 in fines. The company has a...

Council members received a report Monday on the city’s outdated sanitary sewer management plan, currently overdue for an update. The state water board issued Hollister a notice of violation this month for two separate 2016 wastewater spills that discharged into the San Benito River. The...

Council members Monday are set to receive a report on what’s called the Hollister’s Sanitary Sewer Management Plan, an update to a long-outdated plan that comes after the state water board’s recent wastewater violation notice.

Hollister council members are considering a regional community choice energy project.

County supervisors are expected Feb. 7 to receive a report regarding the possibility of a $5 million shortfall on the jail-expansion project.

Hollister Mayor Ignacio Velazquez in a September meeting pushed to have other council members fire City Manager Bill Avera over two wastewater spills last summer into the San Benito River bed, according to a source familiar with the consideration.

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.