Politics

Mayor Ignacio Velazquez sent a letter “as a private citizen” to the Hollister Planning Commission raising new, personal objections to plans to develop the 400 block of San Benito Street. The mayor—forced to recuse himself from all discussion and action on the controversial project because...

County supervisors made an exception to their rule against offering retirement benefits for temporary employees in order to hire someone with expertise in the budget process to replace a management analyst III who retired at the end of December.

The Los Banos City Council unanimously voted to pull support from a project to widen Highway 152 near Casa de Fruta.

The San Benito County Board of Supervisors added an urgency item to the Dec. 20 agenda after Jeff Gaffney, the district superintendent for Hollister Hills, spoke during the public comment period about the termination of the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission’s deputy director.

Hollister council members Monday received a report on ways to treat the city’s industrial wastewater facility, including the once proposed floating island concept. In February 2015, city officials held a special meeting to hear from Mokelumne Hill-based Floating Islands West, LLC. The company’s wastewater treatment...

The San Juan Bautista City Council held a first reading of a planned temporary cannabis ban last Tuesday. “This is a stop gap measure,” said Jim West, the city’s vice mayor at the September 19 meeting. “We’re working on a comprehensive ordinance that could come...

Measure J is headed toward a comfortable victory after one of the most historic, divisive races in the county's modern history.

Despite the lack of a complete development agreement between the

Hollister City Council Monday appointed longtime city employee Geri Johnson as the next treasurer. The City of Hollister held an open application process for the position after former Treasurer Cecilia Rios moved out of the city. The city treasurer can be elected by the public...

The end of agreements between Charter Communications and the cities of Gilroy, Hollister and San Juan Bautista may mean tens of thousands of dollars in extra costs for local school districts, the Hollister wastewater treatment plant, the San Juan Bautista library and other agencies.