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Former Hollister Mayor Victor Gomez has been hired as the executive director of California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse, according to a press release from the organization.

With just less than 1,100 ballots left to count, San Benito County’s Measure N appears headed for failure by the same proportion reported in early results after Nov. 3.

San Benito County Public Health officials are reporting the number of new daily cases of Covid-19 has gone back up, slowing down any progress they made to move into the next level of the California Blueprint for a safer economy. The data from the Public...

It’s all but official—Kollin Kosmicki has won the San Benito County District 2 Supervisor contest. In what turned out to be the closest local race, the San Juan Bautista resident totaled 2,819 votes (51.3 percent) to Wayne Norton’s 2,671 (48.6 percent) in the latest...

San Benito High senior Sommer Salinas grew up attending military events and she was always helping out wherever she was needed. One day while talking to her uncle, who is the Commander in Chief for the Hollister Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9242, Salinas learned...

Democrat Joe Biden was declared the winner in the race to become U.S. president, ousting President Donald Trump after winning the 20 electoral votes in Pennsylvania and putting him over the 270 he needed, results showed Saturday morning.  Ballots are still being counted in Nevada,...

In the latest update from the San Benito County Registrar of Voters, Kollin Kosmicki has increased his lead in the District 2 Supervisor Race. The San Juan Bautista resident who built his campaign on “smart growth” and successfully opposed the Measure N Strada Verde project...

Razya and Aspen Pollock are well-known in their Hollister neighborhood. Donning their San Francisco 49ers gear, the mother-daughter duo walk daily along their streets, playing rock n’ roll hits such as Aerosmith’s “Back in the Saddle” to keep their energy high. For Razya, a lifelong fitness...

Bob Tiffany is leading in a tight, five-way race for County Supervisor in District 4 over local farmer Robert Gibson, retired foreman operator Keith Snow and business owners Mike Mansmith and Dan Valcazar.  As of 10:13pm Nov. 3—the last time election officials updated results—Tiffany had...

Rick Perez says he had no real special interests for himself going into this year’s race for the Hollister Council District 1 seat except for one. “My interests are for the people,” he said after seeing initial results of the election posted Tuesday night. “My...