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March 4, 2026

Gun liability plan falls flat in Morgan Hill

Following the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival July 28, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has proposed a series of new municipal gun control measures that would require firearms owners to carry some form of insurance. While the first-of-its-kind of proposal has gained nationwide attention,...

County looks at housing near hospital

By the end of 2018, Santa Clara County had allocated a quarter of its $950 million Measure A housing bond to create or renovate nearly 2,000 homes in six local cities. Now, after a unanimous vote by the Board of Supervisors last week, it’s trying...

Work to begin on mixed-use center

Work is set to begin on a project that will add retail shops, restaurants, a hotel and other facilities to a 20-acre lot at the corner of Cochrane Road and Butterfield Boulevard. Evergreen Devco, Inc., which has developed retail and multifamily projects across the western...

Local Scene: Women’s Week, Founders’ Dinner

Morgan Hill will celebrate the third annual Women’s Week from Aug. 24 to Aug. 30, in conjunction with Women’s Equality Day Aug. 26.

Give your used stuff a ‘Second Chance’

Give your belongings that you don’t need another chance to be useful at a series of garage sales, recycling and donation events throughout South County during Second Chance Week starting on Sept. 7.

Sheriff: Traffic stop yields guns, drugs

Sheriff’s deputies arrested two people after finding drugs and illegal firearms during a traffic stop in San Martin Monday morning.

Garlic Festival contract is 34 years old

The City of Gilroy is bracing itself for potential litigation over the Gilroy Garlic Festival mass shooting July 28 that bloodied the last day of the festival.

Nurse sought help on Garlic Fest 911 tape

Kim Thompson, a Gilroy nurse who works in Morgan Hill, was running for her life on July 28, after hearing gunshots at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Then she saw Nick McFarland, also of Gilroy, sitting in the parking lot, bleeding from a leg wound.

End-of-summer DUI crackdown

From 7pm to 2am Aug. 30, the police department will conduct a DUI and driver’s license checkpoint at an undisclosed intersection within the city limits.

DA seizes sheriff’s phones, computers

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office served a search warrant early Aug. 2 at Sheriff Laurie Smith’s command hub as part of a hushed, drawn-out investigation into one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent and enduring local political figures. Though it took the targets of...

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