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The Morgan Hill City Council might be asking the city’s voters this November if any future lane reduction on Monterey Road through the downtown should be approved by popular electoral vote. The council is scheduled to consider placing the Monterey Road measure on the Nov....

The Indoor Football League last week released its 2025 schedule, and the Morgan Hill-based Bay Area Panthers will kick off their fourth season at home against the San Antonio Gunslingers on March 30.  The Panthers, who won the 2023 IFL National Championship, are slated to...

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan on Jan. 6 named newly-sworn-in District 1 Councilmember Rosemary Kamei—who started her political career in Morgan Hill—to serve as the city’s vice mayor.  Prior to her election in June, Kamei served as a Morgan Hill planning commissioner, a trustee of...

Santa Clara County this week launched a program that offers grants of up to $5,000 for local small businesses that have taken or plan to take steps to protect their workforce and customers from Covid-19. The county is partnering with the Silicon Valley and Hispanic...

Residents, kids and families from throughout Morgan Hill flocked to the city’s Civic Center Plaza on Peak Avenue Aug. 1 for the annual National Night Out, a nationwide event that promotes productive relationships between police and the communities they serve.  The event featured live music...

When Sheila Murphy set out to rescue three sick goats in 2019, she figured she would nurse them back to health and hand them off to a local farm animal rescue. There was just one problem: no such rescue existed in the area. Seven years...

Leedy named to dean’s list Mackenna Leedy, of Morgan Hill, earned dean's list recognition at George Fox University for the spring 2024 semester. Traditional undergraduate students must earn a 3.5 grade point average or above on 12 or more hours of graded work to earn...

County health officials celebrated the opening of a new location at St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy on Aug. 31 that provides treatment and examinations for victims of sexual assault. The opening of the Sexual Assault Forensic Exam program (SAFE) comes at a time when...

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will consider a resolution declaring no confidence in County Sheriff Laurie Smith at its next meeting Tuesday. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo called for Smith's resignation Aug. 16 over allegations of poor jail management, lack of transparency and...

The first day back on campus Monday was unlike any other at schools throughout Morgan Hill, as students, teachers, parents and faculty resumed in-person instruction in a post-pandemic world of social distancing, hygiene guidelines and new remote learning technology that brings students from their...