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Alex Peña said he’d been living along the banks of the dried-out San Benito River bed for about two years. That was Monday as El Niño finally hit the Hollister area to start an expected onslaught of rain over the next two months.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for San Benito County from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday.

With a heavy onset of rain in Hollister today and expected much of the week, there are sandbags available from the city.

Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital announced that New Year’s Day brought a welcome addition to the Hernandez/Escorcia family in Hollister.

With El Niño looming, the Hollister area is bracing for especially harsh rainstorm conditions overnight Monday and for several days ahead, according to the National Weather Service.

The Free Lance reprinted this excerpt from the T.S. Hawkins book—"Some Recollections of a Busy Life"—with permission from the publisher, McSweeney's.

Since the news always carries such a negative tone, this column will end 2015 with a bad and positive spin on some of the biggest local stories from the past year.

This week’s forecast shows mostly dry skies, but the influence of El Niño is expected to bring higher-than-normal rainfall in January and February, according to a regional weather forecaster.

The customer at Suncoast Organic Farm Bakery off Southside Road in Hollister flagged down Baker Lisa Jensen and told her she had ruined his breakfast.

For two months, Robert Ingle said he slept about three hours a night leading up to the opening of his new store, Pumped Up Fitness Nutrition, on Nov. 9.