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The Upper Llagas Creek Flood Protection Project, a $176.2 million effort led by Valley Water in partnership with the City of Morgan Hill, is entering the home stretch of its final phase, with one of the summer’s most disruptive closures lifting this month. Wright Avenue...

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...

Fundraising for Morgan Hill’s long-awaited Downtown Gateway Arch has surpassed its private donation goal, and the project remains on track for a November installation timed to the city’s 120th anniversary, according to the leader of the group overseeing the project. The Morgan Hill City Council...

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...

Brian Allen and his son Daniel have built their goat-grazing business, Green Goat Landscapers, from just a pair of animals in 2014 to more than 1,000 goats and sheep today. Contracting with entities including Santa Clara County, the Santa Clara Valley Water District and...

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...

Morgan Hill will soon be the new manufacturing home for power grid electronics manufacturer Heron Power, the company and the City of Morgan Hill announced in a joint press release Aug. 13. The Scotts Valley-based industrial electronics company plans to convert an 286,000 square foot...