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County supervisors Wednesday held a special meeting to discuss medicinal marijuana in an attempt to provide public outreach on the controversial issue, but the local newspaper didn’t receive an agenda as usual before the gathering.

San Benito High School Principal Todd Dearden resigned Wednesday morning, district Board President Ray Rodriguez confirmed.

The Hollister Police Department on Wednesday announced it partnered with a state agency on a contractor sting at a home in the city.

The 2015 promoter of the Hollister motorcycle rally responded to criticism offered Monday night by city council members about a financial dispute and his concern, causing a riff, that some vendors have sold merchandise without doing it through the event’s permitting process.

Public transit in San Benito County could get more flexible in the future, with a proposal to allow buses to veer off their routes to pick up people at random, nearby locations.

The Santa Clara County coroner's office released the identity of the Tres Pinos teenager killed Monday in an accident on Bolsa Road as Alexander Armlin.

Bestselling author Dave Eggers will be stopping in Hollister Wednesday to celebrate the life and writing of his great-great grandfather T.S. Hawkins, the founder of the local hospital. 

Hollister council members held an off-agenda discussion on the potential for a 2016 Hollister motorcycle rally, and one official made mention of a $100,000 debt still owed by the prior promoter.

Hollister City Council members Monday approved giving away $92,050 to 12 local nonprofit organizations.