The last Gilroy Garlic Festival in 2019 ended in a stunning and violent tragedy, when a lone teenaged gunman killed three people, and injured 17 others at Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy.

Two Special Operations officers were not injured after returning fire in the seemingly unprovoked incident last week in East San Jose.

The county Facilities and Fleet Department completed three solar arrays in 2024, part of a larger campaign to expand solar power capacity and battery storage at county facilities.

Two newcomers, Margaret Abe-Koga and Betty Duong, win county supervisor races. In the Gilroy mayoral race, Greg Bozzo moves farther ahead of incumbent Marie Blankley.

More than 10,000 comments submitted to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voice concerns about proposed open-pit mine at Juristac’s sacred tribal land.

Prosecutors said suspect Markus Beck had been asked to leave Luigi Aprea Elementary; officers discovered a gas leak inside his home.

Two men have been charged with multiple felonies as “financial predators” for bilking unsuspecting investors of more than $2.3 million for phony business deals.

Unions won major victories in this year’s legislative session on pay for fast food and health care workers, benefits for strikers and bargaining rights. Business groups say labor has too much power at the Capitol. Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas says unions are counting on lawmakers to deliver results.

San Jose detectives obtained search warrants for the suspects' residences, which yielded five handguns (one Ghost Gun and four unregistered), extended gun magazines, drum magazines and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

The 40-acre piece of land was purchased by Google in 2019 with the goal of growing trees in an environmentally sound way for its future and current campuses.

Daniel Catano is also suspected of setting at least eight other fires in Gilroy and committing an auto burglary July 10 in Morgan Hill, when one of the victims—an off-duty officer—followed the suspect, who was able to evade officers.

Caltrain’s current schedule includes three daily round trips between Gilroy and downtown San Jose.

A Santa Clara County Sheriff’s deputy was is in stable condition, after being shot by a suspect Sunday morning in a rural area outside Gilroy.

Gilroy Police began to investigate a series of fraudulent checks that were passed under the names of various businesses in Santa Clara County and San Mateo County in early February.

Christopher, a third generation farmer, founded Christopher Ranch in 1956 on 10 acres of land in Gilroy after receiving a loan from his father.

Opponents of the revised Sargent Ranch plan say it would still disturb wildlife and tribal lands.