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South Santa Clara County’s 50-plus-year honeymoon with the 408 is over, and telephone users are encouraged to get their dialing fingers warmed up to welcome a new area code to town.

With a relatively recent rush of interest for development in the Southside Road area of San Benito County, planners are exploring whether to amend the recently completed General Plan to include a fifth special study area for potential building projects.

While Hollister council members’ views vary on whether July 4 is the appropriate long-term time frame for the city’s air show, a majority of them appears intent on the timing for 2013.

A Sunday evening stroll turned into a heart-stopping adventure when a one-year-old Yorkshire Terrier named Stevie found himself in a perilous predicament high atop a tree limb in San Juan Bautista.   The incident unfolded on Sept. 10, when Stevie’s owners took him for a walk...

Recent discoveries of light brown apple moths in San Juan

The San Benito High School District recently acquired 49.68 acres for a second high school.  The property is located south of Wright Road in northwest Hollister, and it meets many of the criteria for a new high school offered through feedback from the 60-member Facilities...

Fire investigators offered no insight this week into the cause of a “catastrophic collapse” of a roof Sept. 18 at a San Benito Foods tomato processing building in Hollister. The company reported no injuries or ongoing danger to employees. Hollister Fire Marshal Charlie Bedolla said he...

Project will still take years before it goes to vote

In a corner store across from KFC, a woman leaned over a computer screen and clicked numbers showing on the monitor.