Politics

San Benito High School trustees voted 4-1 in favor of approving a roughly $2.6 million lease-leaseback agreement for tennis courts and a new parking lot with some qualifications. Trustee Evelyn Muro cast the lone dissenting vote at the regular board meeting last week.

Improvements to the intersection of Fairview and Sunnyslope roads are related to a requirement that the Santana Ranch development must install frontage lanes that will eventually be part of a broader roadway expansion, a county official said.

A county official Tuesday announced that federal officials are making movement on addressing mussel infestation at San Justo Reservoir that could lead to reopening the facility that has been closed since early 2008.

San Benito County residents are buying in to a turf removal program put together by the local water conservation agency.

Hollister council members Monday agreed to consider an agreement with developers who would build an "Education Center" for the Gavilan College district.

The Hollister City Council on Monday unanimously agreed to change the name of San Juan Hollister Road to Fourth Street.

Hollister council members Monday reversed an earlier decision and agreed, with provisions, to close part of Nash Road once a bypass is built in an attempt to improve student safety at nearby San Benito High School.

A developer with plans to construct hundreds of homes locally filed a lawsuit against the county and city claiming a $9,500 “annexation fee” charged to builders for each residential lot has no legal justification.

The county's auditor Tuesday erred when he told supervisors that Amazon.com has become the No. 1 generator of sales tax in unincorporated San Benito County.

Hollister council members Monday are set to consider an agreement with developers who would build an "Education Center" for the Gavilan College district.