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The Cordoba Center, a mosque and community center in unincorporated San Martin, is moving toward another round of public hearings after county staff reviewed an environmental study of the project. Several community input sessions are scheduled throughout Santa Clara County in coming weeks. The...

Morgan Hill’s General Plan through 2035 calls for a rerouting of Depot Street on the southeast corner of downtown, through the Community and Cultural Center, and connecting Church Street. The rerouting has now been incorporated into a mixed-use development project that will be built...

A-Frame signs line the sidewalks in and around downtown Morgan Hill, advertising for business both in town and outside the city limits. These signs have been a point of controversy between business owners, the city and residents.

After spending seven weeks in a Chicago hostel to study brewing science at the Siebel Institute of Technology, then additional time learning abroad at Doemens Academy in Munich, Germany, Ross Kelly returned to South County determined to make his own mark. “I knew I wanted...

The Morgan Hill City Council is set to consider a proposal to increase and change the impact fees the city charges developers. The proposed changes are based on an impact fee study completed by Wildan Financial and presented to the council in February. The report...

Valley Transit Authority (VTA) staff has made seven recommendations for changes in service to existing local routes. Many of the changes include discontinuing or limiting routes primarily in San Jose; however, a few proposed changes still affect South County riders. In January, the VTA released...

Watsonville man Martin Mason Garcia is scheduled to appear at South County Courthouse May 21 for a plea hearing on the charge that he murdered Curtis Stapleton in Morgan Hill last year.

“In a situation like this, when you have an officer who discharged a firearm, and injured someone, the public should know what happened,” Prout added. “The records should be open even if the officer did not act incorrectly.”

After Morgan Hill hoteliers turned over their signed petition opposing two hotels proposed in Madrone Business park, the petitions were sent to be certified by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters. Typically the registrar only certifies 10 percent of signatures to get a projected...

Growing up in farmworker housing in Paicines, California informed how newly elected state Assemblymember Robert Rivas ran his campaign for his District 30 seat, and now it’s informing one of his first proposed pieces of legislation. The Farmworker Housing Act of 2019 has made its...