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Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram to resolve claims by California and 50 other jurisdictions that the company designed those platforms to addict children, misled consumers about their safety and improperly collected...

U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren presented an $850,000 federal funding check to local officials on Aug. 25 to help establish an Agricultural Resource Center in Gilroy. The aim of the proposed new center is to provide services to local agricultural workers and their families. Lofgren, D-San...

We live in a culture obsessed with safety. We soften the post before sending it. We stay quiet to keep the peace. Silence, we've decided, is safe.  I'm not so sure anymore. It's just a quieter cost—the friendship that cools because you never said the...

California Coastal Cleanup Day will return Sept. 19, with volunteers expected to gather at hundreds of sites statewide to remove trash from beaches, creeks, rivers and other waterways. The 42nd annual event, organized by the California Coastal Commission, will take place from 9am-noon. The cleanup...

The Morgan Hill Police Department will host a DUI checkpoint from 6pm Aug. 28 until 2am Aug. 29, at an undisclosed location within the city limits.  MHPD said in a statement that the checkpoint location will be determined based on data showing incidents of impaired...

Following an investigation, Gilroy Police and detectives from the Morgan Hill Police Department recently arrested two men on suspicion of illegal narcotics activity.  On Aug. 14, officers served a search warrant at a home on the 7200 block of Alexander Street in Gilroy. The warrant...

Charter Communications customers across Morgan Hill, Gilroy, San Martin and Hollister experienced widespread internet outages Aug. 21 as accidental damage to a fiber optic line caused a drop in Spectrum internet service for homes, businesses and government entities across the South Valley area. Outages began...

How has your faith changed your life? Or has it?  In my daily Bible reading, I came across this nugget: “Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey...

Long before Mary Blair became one of Disney’s most celebrated visual artists, designers and storytellers, she was a young girl growing up in Morgan Hill. Blair, born Mary Browne Robinson on Oct. 21, 1911, in McAlester, Oklahoma, moved with her family several times during her...

South Bay Singers is inviting new and returning singers from Morgan Hill, Gilroy, San Martin, Hollister and throughout the South Valley to join its Fall/Holiday season, beginning Sept. 9 at Advent Lutheran Church in Morgan Hill.  The community choir welcomes all experience levels, requires no...