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Lightheart Cellars is a small estate winery in San Martin, featuring Bordeaux wines from their local vineyards and Burgundy wines from the Carneros AVA. Founded in 2009, as a classic “Silicon Valley Garage startup” they have been welcoming guests since June 2011, with their signature “Good Wines, Good Times” motto emblematic of their philosophy of minimum pretension. Aided by family and friends, they've expanded from modest beginnings and are actively participating in local community events.

Léal Estate Vineyards selects the highest quality of both grapes and barrels to create a union of intensity and finesse. The result can be found in wines that express elegant flavors, fine layers of complexity and a lingering finish that will touch all of your senses.

Jason-Stephens Winery opened its tasting room doors in October 2008. Since then the winery has helped revitalize the image of the once prominent wine growing region of the Santa Clara Valley. With many awards for wine quality and flavor, great events, a picture perfect vineyard and a relaxing creekside setting it's no wonder Jason-Stephens is a local favorite.

The Castillo’s Hillside Shire Winery’s desire is to treat guests to their smooth and savory award-winning wines that will captivate the most unquenchable palate.  Their oak-aged, handcrafted wine is a drinkable treasure, born from the vineyards infused by the peaceful surroundings that only nature can provide.

With a love for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, Josh Jensen founded Calera Wine Company in 1975, and now has 84 acres of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Viognier planted in the Mt. Harlan American Viticultural Area in San Benito County.

A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Tuesday afternoon two miles from Pinnacles National Monument, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 5:30 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 1.9 miles.

Another search-and-rescue effort to find missing 15-year-old Sierra LaMar is scheduled for today, and will include sheriff’s office dive teams searching underwater in South County reservoirs. 

San Benito High School School Board Trustee Tim Shellito has  announced his resignation.

Two simultaneous drug awareness presentations held in February at San Benito High School have created a divide of perceptions, with one district trustee in attendance that night calling it a display of racism and questioning why English and Spanish programs conveyed different messages.