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Vargas enrolls at Palmer Fernando Vargas, of Morgan Hill, has been accepted for enrollment for the 2025 spring term in the Doctor of Chiropractic degree program at Palmer College of Chiropractic’s main campus in Davenport, Iowa.  Prepare for summer The City of Morgan Hill’s Recreation Activity Guide...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 11 signed multiple housing bills aimed at tackling the state’s lack of affordable housing and making it easier for tenants to rent a home in the first place.   Newsom signed a whopping 56 bills into law which he said...

A 5-acre fire is burning in Henry W. Coe State Park east of Morgan Hill on Tuesday afternoon, according to Cal Fire. Cal Fire's Santa Clara Unit reported at 12:55pm that the fire was burning in an area of the park near Willow Ridge. No...

A group of area residents spent their weekend hiking in Morgan Hill before stretching and calming their nerves in an afternoon of yoga—all in the company of goats. The Goat Yoga Holiday Mini-Retreat, organized by Original Goat Yoga, was held Dec. 28 at the...

More than 300 new affordable apartments are coming to Morgan Hill, as the developers of two projects are seeking zoning and density exemptions under state laws that are designed to address California’s housing crisis. The city council at its April 21 meeting will likely approve...

Students at the Charter School of Morgan Hill celebrated Valentine’s Day in a unique way Feb. 14 as they successfully collected enough cans to go around a 1/8-mile track for a schoolwide “We LOVE our community” canned food drive.The canned food will be given to Second Harvest Food Bank for distribution to those in need.Students used critical thinking skills to calculate how many cans it would take to go around the 1/8-mile track, and then demonstrated personal and social responsibility with their donations, according to CSMH staff. They also were given the challenge of collecting enough canned food donations to do so.“I am happy to report that our CSMH community was able to demonstrate how much we care about our larger community by meeting the challenge of donating enough cans to go around our 1/8-mile track,” said Diana Gill, CSMH Community Liaison and Outreach Coordinator.

Newsom appoints Butler to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein California Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint a woman to fill the seat of the late U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died Sept. 29. Laphonza Butler will replace Feinstein, the Governor’s Office confirmed Oct. 1.  Butler is currently president of...

CalFire will be conducting a series of controlled burns over the coming months in Henry W. Coe State Park in an effort to reduce fuels and preserve the diversity of vegetation within the park. The burning will begin Nov. 1 and last through April 30,...

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...