Politics

A debate is brewing over private property owners leasing out space to sell merchandise during the Hollister biker rally and whether the city can charge special fees to those locals to help make up a continued deficit for outside promoters.

San Juan Bautista council members expressed unanimous support Tuesday night for a hillside ordinance in a city with few slopes.

Supervisors have changed course on the direction for a permanent homeless shelter three months after pinpointing an area near the airport for the 24-hour center.

A proposal for a 21-home subdivision in Tres Pinos, with a population of about 500, may come down to availability of water.

Gavilan College broke ground Friday on a major expansion that will bring thousands of students to a new campus in San Jose’s Coyote Valley and focus heavily on law enforcement and public safety training classes.

County supervisors Wednesday held a special meeting to discuss medicinal marijuana in an attempt to provide public outreach on the controversial issue, but the local newspaper didn’t receive an agenda as usual before the gathering.

The 2015 promoter of the Hollister motorcycle rally responded to criticism offered Monday night by city council members about a financial dispute and his concern, causing a riff, that some vendors have sold merchandise without doing it through the event’s permitting process.

Hollister council members held an off-agenda discussion on the potential for a 2016 Hollister motorcycle rally, and one official made mention of a $100,000 debt still owed by the prior promoter.

Hollister City Council members Monday approved giving away $92,050 to 12 local nonprofit organizations.

Downtown Hollister might get its lane makeover before Christmas, after all.