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Do you have something to say about regional public transportation? You have until March 1 to share comments with the Council of San Benito County Governments. The county’s regional transportation agency held a series of meetings earlier this month to take public comment on unmet...

Eight days after unveiling his plans for a new Farm Bill in Washington, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue headed to California to help sell the plan to farmers in the nation’s biggest agricultural state. His whirlwind visit was to have included stops at farms...

Hollister police are warning residents of a “virtual kidnapping scam” in which a caller or callers have attempted to extract ransom money from unsuspecting local victims in recent days. The Hollister Police Department detailed one attempt at this scam in a Feb. 18 press release....

The San Benito County Sheriff’s Office has received reports of a prior scam that has resurfaced. In the scam phone call, the caller identifies themselves as a deputy with the San Benito County Sheriff’s Office. The caller then claims the victim is supposed to report...

A shift from an at-large to a trustee area election system this year will determine three seats on the San Benito High School District Board of Trustees for the first time in November. For the current five-member board, the change in format was a welcome...

The latest annual crime tallies for the City of Hollister show that 2017 was less violent and slightly more larcenous than previous years, but the city’s acting police chief says the police department and its staff measure their success by much more than statistics. “We’re...

With all the new cannabis businesses starting up in Hollister, who is in charge of overseeing it all? The City of Hollister’s new Cannabis Affairs Division. “On behalf of the city, we want to inform the community that the rules and regulations that are in...

If you have ever considered running for local office, now is your chance. Monday Feb. 12 kicked off the nomination period for the June 5, 2018 Statewide Primary Election. The nomination period ends on Friday, March 9, a date that can be extended to Wednesday,...

This may be great weather for weekend fun, but a continued lack of rainfall has state and federal officials worried about a return of drought conditions, after two wet winters. It hasn’t rained a drop here for more than a month, and none is forecast...

Police arrested an 18-year-old Hollister man on charges that he supplied another teen with a potent opioid that resulted in the victim’s overdose death. In December 2017, Hollister Police officers responded to a reported overdose death at an unspecified location within the city limits. During...