To meet growing demand for garlic, Gilroy's Christopher Ranch recently invested in an expansion of its garlic production plant, adding more employees as production ramps up.

After a weekend of lobbying, jockeying and speculating, then a flurry of parliamentary maneuvers and a six-hour closed-door caucus meeting on Tuesday, Rivas’ campaign for speaker ended abruptly. California Assembly Democrats decided to keep their current leader, Speaker Anthony Rendon

Gilroy Officer Catalina Fraide’s disciplined response in September 2021 to a live-fire ambush by a violent felon intent on killing police officers is a credit to her training, professionalism and courage, wrote Deputy District Attorney Robert Baker.

The DEA and U.S. attorney announced the arrests of Victor Nevarez, Juan Rivera Arzate and Pedro Gaona Salse, all of San Jose, and Adhemar Castaneda Becerril, of Gilroy.

Former Sheriff Robert Earl Winter drew on his family history for his novel set in the Civil War.

Lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom have different opinions on the best next steps for California’s high-speed rail project.

Critics say that despite threats of big insurance premiums in the wake of a 2019 mass shooting, Gilroy city officials pulled the plug too early on the Gilroy Garlic Festival after more than four decades.

Supervisors voted unanimously to give $3 million to a Planned Parenthood office in San Jose to help expand its medical and reproductive care services n anticipation of an increase in women both in the county and from other states seeking abortion services. 

The California High-Speed Rail board approved a controversial alignment for a portion of the Merced to San Jose route.

Santa Clara County cold case detectives partnered with the DNA Doe Project, a nonprofit organization that helps identify unknown bodies, concluded that Patricia Skiple of Oregon was murdered by Keith Hunter Jesperson.

Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was arrested Feb. 28 after he allegedly chased and shot at Harry Goularte, a 43-year-old man suspected of touching a 4-year-old child inappropriately at a childcare business in San Martin.

Cain Velasquez arraigned on attempted murder charges in relation to Feb. 28 shooting.

Proponents are targeting laws such as Senate Bill 9, which took effect Jan. 1, and allows for a property zoned single-family to be split for a duplex without a public hearing.

The real estate deal by the online retail giant marks its second acquisition in Gilroy and extends its footprint — and jobs potential — deeper into South Santa Clara County.

The three new congressional districts for the San Jose metro area include the first majority Latino district, and another that is the first predominantly Asian district.

Endorsements from supervisors Susan Ellenberg and Cindy Chavez mean two of the voters aren’t exactly impartial decision makers.