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San Benito County voters will be asked to approve an additional 1 percent countywide transportation sales tax on the Nov. 6 ballot, following actions by the county Board of Supervisors on July 24 and the San Benito County Council of Governments on July 19. The...

The San Benito Community Foundation announced its annual list of recipients for its “community impact” grants, an assortment of 41 nonprofits sharing more than $253,000. The grants, ranging from $1,000 to $10,000, were announced at the local foundation’s annual grant awards dinner June 12. Nearly all...

Eight months after a Superior Court judge ruled that San Benito County Board of Education Trustee Mitchell Dabo violated California probate laws when he transferred more than $640,000 from a charitable trust to his person accounts, the fate of an ongoing criminal probe could...

Representatives of the Associated Student Body, the student government at San Benito High School, had a cumulative 3.53 grade point average during the 2017-18 school term, according to an annual report by SBHS Activities Director Catalina Lemos. Lemos, who gave the presentation June 26 to...

Police on July 16 arrested a Hollister man who tried to flee from officers responding to a report of domestic violence, according to authorities. About 11:15am, Hollister Police were dispatched to the 500 block of Santa Ana Road on a report of a domestic...

Police are asking the public for help investigating two shootings that occurred July 10 in a neighborhood northwest of downtown Hollister. About 3am, Hollister Police officers received a call of gunshots heard near the 300 block of Locust Avenue, according to a July 16 press...

Hollister police on Friday, July 13 announced the arrest in Mexico of a suspect in the 2014 murder of Hollister teen Ariana Zendejas. Police Chief David Westrick said Jose Antonio Barajas, a 24-year-old U.S. citizen, was arrested by police in Guadalajara, Mexico on Thursday, July...

Candidates for local government and school board offices can begin filing for election—or re-election—beginning Monday, July 16, and some local school candidates have already made their decisions about their next steps. A desire to complete several school construction projects within the San Benito High School...

The City of Hollister earlier this year rejected plans for a Fourth of July motorcycle festival, but that didn’t stop hundreds of Harley riders from descending on San Benito Street on July 7 in an informal, impromptu communal gathering of leather-clad enthusiasts. The nearly...

Using a store manager’s description to pull over a suspicious vehicle, Hollister police officers made a late-night arrest of two teenaged suspects in possession of thousands of dollars of over-the-counter pharmaceuticals from Safeway stores in Hollister, Prunedale and Half Moon Bay. On the night of...