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High school students graduating from the Morgan Hill Unified School District Class of 2021 will be able to walk in live graduation ceremonies late this spring, as long as the region’s Covid-19 case rates don’t spike before then. School district staff and community members are...

Santa Clara County’s elected sheriff and the department’s second-in-command invoked their right against self-incrimination instead of answering questions from prosecutors before a criminal grand jury earlier this month.

The City of Morgan Hill has begun hosting community meetings and circulating a survey among residents for the city’s first Transportation Master Plan. The first community meetings are scheduled for Nov. 8 and Nov. 16, with the latter of these conducted in Spanish, from 7-9pm...

A 21-year-old Salinas man died late Saturday night in a solo-car crash on Highway 101 south of Gilroy, the California Highway Patrol said Wednesday.  At about 11:30pm July 8, the man was headed north on Highway 101 just north of Highway 25 in a 2004...

The City of Morgan Hill continues to seek input from residents and business owners on a potential “complete streets” project for the city’s downtown that is scheduled for discussion at the May 19 city council meeting. Earlier this week, city staff began circulating an online...

Authorities recently charged a man with murder in relation to the February 2023 drug overdose death of a Morgan Hill woman.  On March 1, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office charged Benjamin Nathan Williams, 34, of San Jose with one count of murder and...

Gerald Foisy—largely known to Gilroy community members and garlic aficionados as Mr. Garlic—died on Jan. 7 after a battle with Alzheimer's. He was 83 years old.  For 29 years, Foisy volunteered as Mr. Garlic, the happy, healthy ambassador of the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival who...

California lifted most of its Covid-19 restrictions and officially reopened Tuesday, marking the moment with state-subsidized vacation giveaways and $15 million in vaccine lottery prizes as it emerged from the pandemic politically divided but economically formidable. One of the last U.S. states to reopen, California...

Two fires in Morgan Hill in the past week burned a number of structures and a couple acres of vegetation, according to authorities. Firefighters from CalFire and the Morgan Hill Fire Department responded to a vegetation blaze about 3pm June 24 in the area of...

A 74-year-old Santa Clara County Main Jail inmate in San Jose died Saturday after being found unresponsive in his jail cell during a welfare check.  The man, who was housed alone, was found unresponsive in his cell in the jail's 2B dorm unit at about...