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It was a season to remember for the Live Oak High boys lacrosse team, which made program history by winning its first league championship and Central Coast Section playoff match.  The Acorns’ top highlight was no doubt their riveting 9-8 win over Mitty in their...

They placed a mountain in front of Sobrato softball this year and the Bulldogs are climbing it. A successful 2023 season moved Sobrato up one level in the Blossom Valley Athletic League division hierarchy. But with significant senior graduations, it would be a different...

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 18 unanimously approved a change of course for proposed rural zoning amendments after hundreds of farmers, ranchers and equestrian business owners raised concerns the changes would devastate their operations. Supervisor Sylvia Arenas, who represents much of...

Valley Water officials have suspended the development of the Pacheco Reservoir Expansion Project, which the agency had been working on since 2017 and whose projected total cost has ballooned to more than $3 billion since then.  The Valley Water board of directors voted 6-0 to...

Gavilan College honored its largest graduating class in school history May 24, awarding 1,779 associate degrees and certificates during a ceremony at the college’s Gilroy campus. It was Gavilan’s 105th commencement ceremony.  “Class of 2025, congratulations. You are a part of history,” Gavilan College Superintendent...

Crews have been stationed inside the currently dry Uvas Creek alongside Christmas Hill Park for the past few weeks, adding redwood logs and gravel along three sites, with the hope that when the water flows again, fish will have a safer habitat. Valley Water’s Uvas...

By Kyle Martin Santa Clara County leaders on June 18 applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to block the Trump administration’s attempt to cancel the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (known as DACA). “Because of this decision, today I get to go back and...

A non-native Aedes aegypti mosquito—an aggressive species that can spread certain diseases—has been discovered in a residential area of Gilroy, according to the Santa Clara County Vector Control District. A mosquito of the same species was also found recently in a neighborhood of east...

Interfaith Thanksgiving service this Sunday All of South County is invited to the annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, held Nov. 24 at Advent Lutheran Church, 16870 Murphy Ave., Morgan Hill. The service begins at 4pm.   Clergy and lay leaders in the interfaith community who live in Morgan...

During Jerry Brown’s first stint as governor of California, he became enmeshed in a very complicated dispute over how the state should tax the incomes of multinational corporations. More than four decades later, the issue has resurfaced in a corporate tax case involving Microsoft, one...