A 2019 mass shooting at the festival left three dead, including a13-year-old San Jose girl, with 17 wounded and hundreds traumatized. July 28 is the deadline to apply for victim compensation aid.

The pause comes after California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Santa Clara County filed suit seeking to stop the project, arguing it violates state law.

All consumer fireworks — including those labeled "Safe and Sane" — are dangerous and illegal to use, possess, or sell in almost all of Santa Clara County. The lone exception is the City of Gilroy.

Gilroy hospital opened center that offers cardiac diagnostic health care on Jan. 6.

The immersive holiday event features dazzling light displays throughout the South Santa Clara County horticultural theme park, including a 100-foot North Pole Light Tunnel with synchronized music.

The “Operation Family Ties” investigation began in June 2025 when a Morgan Hill police officer became suspicious of one of the defendants applying to open a massage parlor under another individual’s name.

The suspect, 60-year-old Christina Jean Johnson, was arrested in Shasta County last month, and appeared at the South County courthouse in Morgan Hill last week. She operated a daycare facility in Gilroy.

California Victim Compensation Board offers financial help for those impacted by 2019 tragedy for one more year.

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.