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California faces a $22.5 billion budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Jan. 10 as he proposed billions in cuts and deferred spending amid a significant drop in capital gains tax revenue. After the state’s revenue boomed a year ago due largely to a capital gains...

A judge has sentenced a Hollister man to 16 years in prison for raping a girl – who was age 13 at the time – twice in 2010.

Kiwi the pig is worth more than the average car. As this year’s Heritage Hog, she could fetch over $80,000 at the San Benito County Fair in September. At least that’s the hope of her 17-year-old caretaker, Noah Janzing. The nonprofit San Benito County Heritage Foundation...

Two more earthquakes occurred the afternoon of May 1 within a mile of where another small quake shook early that same morning about 3 miles west of Mission San Juan Bautista, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Sunday's second and third quakes, measured respectively at...

FFA presents county flag to supes

San Benito High School’s Life Skills Department has a partnership brewing with local business Java Express to form the Baler Strong Coffee Company. The campus-based business assists students with special needs in developing and practicing social norms, communication skills, money-handling and team building, according to...

The San Benito County Sheriff's Office is continuing to investigate a 24-year-old San Juan Bautista man arrested on suspicion of having sex with a minor, according to an announcement from the sheriff's office.

A Hollister Police Sergeant was injured Tuesday in a collision after a long vehicle pursuit that ended in Hayward, CA where three suspects were arrested. On September 19 around 9:57 p.m. Officer Don Tong attempted to stop a vehicle around the intersection of Fourth and...

Former Napa public works chief replaces retired Yamaoka