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Police arrested a suspect in an October restaurant burglary after an observant business owner saw the same man checking locked doors and windows earlier this week in Morgan Hill, authorities said.  About 10:20am Oct. 6, Morgan Hill Police responded to a report of a commercial...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a stack of bills Aug. 16 aimed at curtailing organized retail, property and auto theft in California. Newsom appeared at a Home Depot in San Jose with state, business and law enforcement officials, signing 10 bills that he said go “to...

The Morgan Hill Police Department and local school district officials are investigating the recent hand-written inscriptions of racial slurs in a student yearbook at Ann Sobrato High School.  In a June 5 email to Morgan Hill Unified School District board members and superintendent’s office, San...

Call for artists The City of Morgan Hill is calling for artists to submit proposals for a new public mural to be created on the new Galvan Park restroom building on Crest Avenue. The city’s Library, Culture and Arts and Parks and Recreation commissions are...

Most incumbents will face competition on the Nov. 8 ballot for elected offices representing the City of Morgan Hill and the Morgan Hill Unified School District, according to local elections officials. The qualifying period to appear on the Nov. 8 ballot ended Aug. 12 for...

The nomination period opened July 15 and will close at 5pm Aug. 9 for candidates for local elected offices on the Nov. 5 general election ballot. The closing date can be extended to Aug. 14 for offices in which an eligible incumbent has not...

Becerra inducted into Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Mary Becerra of Morgan Hill, a student at Saint Mary's College of California, was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic...

Measure RR on the Nov. 3 ballot is a one-eighth-cent sales tax that would be levied for 30 years in order to help “save” Caltrain, the commuter train line that runs between Gilroy and San Francisco, according to supporters.

Santa Clara County reached another “sobering milestone” in the fight against the novel coronavirus, as the number of deaths from Covid-19 surpassed 1,000 on Jan. 13.

Local officials and home builders on Feb. 13 celebrated the groundbreaking for the construction of a project that will bring 65 affordable houses for farmworkers to north Morgan Hill.  Developer Eden Housing is building the project, known as The Magnolias, which is partially funded by...