Authorities to enforce daytime curfew during school year
City and county curfews that have required youths to be home before 10 p.m. during the school year are being extended to daytime hours starting Aug. 1 as part of a joint effort between the Hollister Police Department and the county sheriff.
‘Instant gratification’ at charter school planning Hollister campus
Math teacher Heather Parsons has full grasp of her students’ attention, and Gilroy Prep would have it no other way.
Alleged landscape scammer arrested
About a month after police launched an investigation into the man who roams around door-to-door in Santa Clara County, allegedly looking for victims who will pay him upfront for landscaping he doesn’t complete, police arrested the alleged “landscape scammer” Monday night in Gilroy.
SBHS Class of 2012: ‘The world is not ending – we’re just taking over’
See an expanded story on the San Benito, San Andreas and Anzar high school graduations – along with other profiles – on June 19.
Need to plan a bus trip? Google it
County Express riders can now plan their route and find schedule information for fixed-route bus service and inter-county transportation services using a Google Transit trip planner.
City needs alternate funding path for trenching
With no city funding available for earthquake fault studies in downtown Hollister, officials are looking for other ways to get large portions of the historic area approved by the state for potential redevelopment.
State reversal: County eligible for block grant
San Benito County's 2012 Community Development Block Grant application has been deemed eligible for a review a month after the state's Department of Housing and Community Development first deemed it in ineligible.
RUN TO FIGHT: Local on a cross-country trek
Ethan Bennett is on a journey. It is an open-ended passage that, in this particular case, has a destination. But, in other aspects, it may never truly end.
Gavilan’s top 20 club makes $3.4M
The top 20 employees at Gavilan College made $3.4 million in salaries and benefits in 2011, which is about 15 percent of the total personnel expenditures at Gavilan College.
Sheriff wraps up water searches for Sierra
Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies Monday finished up the search of Uvas reservoir for the remains of missing teen Sierra LaMar or any sign of where she might be, authorities said.
















