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In recent weeks, an illegal, makeshift sidewalk sale popped up on the relatively busy section of Sunnyslope Road near Clearview Drive. That ended Saturday after the Free Lance questioned two men running the non-permitted business on a portion of sidewalk that doesn’t even abut...

When a teenage accuser in a local sexual assault case took the stand in late June, he physically attacked the suspect. The rare instance in a courtroom led to an almost immediate mistrial declaration because jurors watched it unfold. Now, prosecutors are preparing to schedule...

County supervisors opened the book on the possibility of a new library. San Benito County’s board last week voted unanimously in favor of hiring Maryland-based Library Systems & Services to develop a needs assessment for the local system. The approval comes after a recommendation for...

The local cities and county’s attempt to cooperate through a special committee isn’t going as smoothly as planned. Hollister Councilman Ray Friend shared his frustrations about the intergovernmental committee involving the cities of Hollister and San Juan and the county at the Aug. 15 council...

The county’s future Homeless Services Center at 1161 San Felipe Road is over the horizon.

Plants within the fences of Garden Mart off San Benito Street sit protected in their individual pots, waiting for someone to take them home.

Hollister council members passed a resolution Tuesday that makes the city the official hanger of banners over San Benito Street. Previously, there wasn’t an official hanger. At times the City of Hollister would do it, and other times it was done by a private company.

Marijuana was on the minds of many during this week’s Hollister City Council meeting.

The San Benito Health Care District Board last week directed Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital administration to begin a fact-finding process and mediation with the California Nurses Association over a 14-month contract dispute. But a CNA representative said the nurses union as of Wednesday afternoon hadn’t been been contacted by the hospital to start mediation.

After a more than five-hour standoff into early Wednesday at a residence on Seventh Street, police from Hollister and Monterey County deployed tear gas into the home, leading to an arrest.