State considers legislation to help rural hospitals
Five months after declaring a fiscal emergency and predicting that they’d run out of funds by early this year, officials at San Benito County’s only hospital said they have secured enough cash to get through the summer. At least for now, residents there won’t...
Hollister School District to offer free summer lunches to children
The Hollister School District will again offer free lunch to any child 18 years and younger at four locations for the summer.
Hollister woman accused of hiding a shooting suspect
A Hollister woman has been arrested on suspicion of being an accessory to a crime by hiding a shooting suspect, according to the Hollister Police Department.
Former assemblyman presents book on Tres Pinos
Tres Pinos resident and former State Assemblyman Peter Frusetta has written a book about the little town were he was born. The Tres Pinos community he calls home was once famous for hay and the site of ice cream parlors and movie theaters, he said.
Los Banos mayor blasts Hwy. 152 plan as money grab
Plans to use money from Merced County to widen Highway 152 in neighboring areas and create a toll road to pay for it have drawn the ire of Los Banos Mayor Mike Villalta.
Qualifying extended to Aug. 17 for some local Nov. 8 election races
The candidate qualifying period closed on Aug. 12 for many of the elections for City of Hollister and San Juan Bautista, as well as local school boards of education and special district offices that will appear on the Nov. 8 ballot, according to San...
Paicines Ranch selling turkeys in time for Thanksgiving
It’s a great time to be a human during the penultimate month of the year.
The weather is mild, the holidays are approaching, and a Thanksgiving feast caps November. Some local ranches offer organic turkeys for purchase, making for a sustainable dinner centerpiece.
It’s a bad...
CA reopens economy with mix of joy, worry, anger
California lifted most of its Covid-19 restrictions and officially reopened Tuesday, marking the moment with state-subsidized vacation giveaways and $15 million in vaccine lottery prizes as it emerged from the pandemic politically divided but economically formidable.
One of the last U.S. states to reopen, California...


















