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A pedestrian died in a traffic collision in Hollister Monday night, and police are still investigating the crash. Hollister Police responded to the collision about 7:55pm Sept. 5. A vehicle traveling eastbound on Fourth Street was driving through the intersection of Graf Road when the...

In split votes, San Benito County supervisors and Hollister City Council members this month agreed on a new formula to divide property tax revenues from some new residential developments. While the amounts are relatively small—limited to only some of the explosive new growth in the...

As long as Derek Jensen is the coach of the Gavilan College men’s basketball program, the Rams should be in good shape.  Like his predecessor and brother, Dallas, who went on to become the coach at College of the Sequoias, Derek has shown to be...

About three months into the school year, the students and parents of San Juan School are settling under the leadership of a permanent principal: Jorge Martinez.

The handful of applications to fly a commemorative flag at City Hall have yet to be approved or denied by the Hollister City Council three months after a policy was adopted, leading some councilmembers to suggest revising it or scrapping the newly minted guidelines...

Mitchell Dabo revealed this week he would not seek election to a third one-year term as president of the San Benito County Board of Education. Dabo’s revelation, in an interview with the Free Lance on Wednesday, occurred one day after Hollister police confirmed they had...

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Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his proposed 2022-2023 state budget Monday, including a proposal to extend health care coverage to every low-income resident in the state. The proposal would expand access to Medi-Cal, the state's version of Medicaid, to all residents who meet the program's income...

Steven Sanders is exceptional at a couple of things: working really hard and singing really cool—doo-wop cool.