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Council member Marty Richman for District 4 this week was selected to be Hollister mayor pro tempore for 2019. The decision was made by the newly sworn-in council in its first meeting of the new year, and upended the traditional selection process for the position--...

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The Hollister High field hockey team achieved history this season, winning a league championship for the first time in its eighth year as a program. The Haybalers finished 11-5 after a 5-1 loss to Christopher High on Nov. 2 in the second round of the...

Board director Josie Sanchez's term is up in 2026

When Hollister's Haylie Stelling takes to the saddle, she plays country music on her iPhone, tucks it into her cowboy boot and rides toward a dream. The teen wants to be the first woman to compete in team roping at a professional level while also competing in barrel racing, the only rodeo event open to women at a professional level.

Sheriff’s detectives Friday morning arrested a convicted sex offender on suspicion of oral copulation and lewd and lascivious acts with a minor in 2009, according to the sheriff’s office.

San Juan Bautista City Councilmember Dan DeVries has been charged with three misdemeanors in relation to a May 24 suspected domestic violence incident. San Benito County District Attorney Candice Hooper’s office on June 21 filed charges of battery of a non-cohabiting spouse, assault by any...

In an election initially separated by only a few dozen votes, the District 3 supervisor race at first had seemed too close to call. Peter Hernandez’s lead grew in the days following the election, and as the ballot counting ended its second week, he...

Halloween seems to bring out the creativity in pet owners who make the cutest, cleverest, and funniest costumes for their dogs, big and small, to parade around in. There are even costumes for feline pets, but I wouldn’t try putting one any of on my own cats unless I planned to look like a flesh-torn zombie afterward.