Politics

A statewide initiative to ask voters to change portions of three crime-related laws is picking up steam in Santa Clara County, and is soon expected to reach San Benito County. Over the last week and a half, both the Morgan Hill City Council and Gilroy...

Integrated Waste Management Director Mandy Rose is set to retire after serving in the role since August 1999.

Despite a year with half the average rainfall, the San Benito County Water District estimates the current groundwater levels and stored water are sufficient to “accommodate several successive dry years with negative water budgets,” according to the annual groundwater report available on the district’s website.

A voluntary federal government program to create conservation easements along the Central Valley foothills is coming up against resistance in San Benito County, with supervisors prepared to draft a resolution opposing the program.

As a fog bank hovered over the California State Monterey Bay campus on Monday, 150 immigrants from 19 nations took part in a naturalization ceremony at the university’s ballroom in Seaside. In the room’s front rows sat eager participants, all carrying little American flags that...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a stack of bills Aug. 16 aimed at curtailing organized retail, property and auto theft in California. Newsom appeared at a Home Depot in San Jose with state, business and law enforcement officials, signing 10 bills that he said go “to...

Gavilan College trustees have supported making changes to the way voters elect them, a trustee confirmed.