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While this year’s raging winter storms are long gone, the county is still working on repairing the damaged levee the rains left behind. Rainfall and flooding earlier this year caused San Benito County to declare a flooding emergency in the area around Lover’s Lane as...

In a bid to keep downtown Hollister’s last patch of open space from becoming condos and offices, Mayor Ignacio Velazquez submitted a petition to city hall on Tuesday that would stop the development of the 400 block of San Benito Street. Velazquez turned into the...

School’s not the only thing that’s out for summer. The Hollister City Council is taking a July recess for the second year in a row. The history of the recess starts in 2015 when that year’s July 6 council meeting was cancelled due to the...

Cannery workers left the picket line and went back to work at San Benito Foods in Hollister earlier this month, after management and their union agreed to a new labor contract that netted both seasonal and year-round workers a $1 an hour raise. The...

The Hollister Police Department issued an evacuation order Wednesday for a major gas leak on Santa Ana Road. The order, issued at 12:56 p.m., called for an immediate evacuation within 2,000 yards of the 200 block of Santa Ana Road. According to Public Information Officer Don...

A man carrying a concealed firearm was arrested by Hollister Police on Saturday. Pedro Ramirez, 37, of Hollister was arrested for carrying a concealed firearm, carrying a loaded firearm, resisting arrest, evading, DUI, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The San Benito County...

Countless motorcycles lined San Benito Street this weekend as the 70th anniversary Hollister Independence Rally kicked into high gear. Downtown swarmed with bikers of all creeds and colors. Attendees gawked at ferocious hogs and ate their weight in barbeque and Spam fries as engines revved...

As a fog bank hovered over the California State Monterey Bay campus on Monday, 150 immigrants from 19 nations took part in a naturalization ceremony at the university’s ballroom in Seaside. In the room’s front rows sat eager participants, all carrying little American flags that...

Congressman Jimmy Panetta announced last week that five San Benito County schools have been awarded more than one million dollars in federal grants for the upcoming school year. Schools include the Aromas-San Juan Unified School District, the Hollister Elementary School District, the North County Joint...