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Within this five-acre park-like setting lies a newer home. Located at 557 Ruben Court in Hollister, the 3,309-square-foot, five-bedroom, four-bath home was built in 2016. The fenced acreage includes a pasture as well as eucalyptus and oak trees that surround a seasonal creek. The interior has...

The gunman in the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival took his own life during a shootout with police, the Santa Clara County coroner revealed late Friday afternoon, Aug. 2. Dr. Michelle A. Jorden, responding to requests from the Gilroy Dispatch and other local...

Eric Cryar, Hugo Del Moral and Robert Basuino are the Gilroy police officers hailed as heroes for shooting and killing the gunman who murdered three people and injured more than a dozen others at the Gilroy Garlic Festival July 28. Police Chief Scot Smithee named...

Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee stopped by the Garlic Festival law enforcement tent at “Gate 3” on Miller Avenue on his way home with his family about 5:20pm July 28. He was on US 101 just south of Gilroy about 20 minutes later when...

"Don't forget to breathe." That was the simple yet most effective advice Conner Menez received from some of the San Francisco Giants players when the left-hander made his major league debut on July 21 against the New York Mets, a game the Giants won 3-2...

As the 41st annual Garlic Festival was in full swing, Christopher Ranch’s executive vice president Ken Christopher told the Hollister Free Lance that this year could potentially change the festival forever. With bigger-name celebrities than ever before, Christopher’s most pressing concern on the festival’s second...

The 2018 Farm Bill made it legal to grow commercial hemp in the U.S. for the first time in half a century, but fewer than half of California’s counties allow the crop. San Benito is one of them. Growers are now storming San Benito and...

San Juan Bautista is a city that prides itself on its history and its preservation of artifacts from long ago. Its state historic park features several structures built in the 1800s, meticulously maintained, highlighted by its 15th century Spanish-era mission. So it’s baffling that an...

The idea of a white picket fence surrounding a home may have died out after the midcentury, but this Hollister home may have the next best thing. Located at 830 Los Viboras Road, this five-bedroom, five-bath, 3,743-square-foot home sits on five acres of usable land....

On July 26, 2019 the Hollister Police Department responded to a report of a man trying to break into a residence. At about 2:08am, officers were dispatched to the 700 block of Calais Drive, according to a press release from the Hollister Police Department. An...