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Heritage Plaza to Get A Spanish-style Makeover
Heritage Plaza in Hollister is undergoing a Spanish style renovation, led by the Nino Family. The center, housing national retailers and small businesses, aims to enhance its appeal and functional...
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How the California mental health crisis emerged out of the state’s history of deinstitutionalization and laws designed to protect the mentally ill, as well as the communities around them.
The Williamson Act, passed in 1965, now keeps more than 16 million acres of farmland out of the hands of developers. Here's how the law puts the brakes on the development of California agricultural properties.
How California’s 10 state conservancies buy up open land and shield it from developers to preserve the natural environment for public use.
Democracy is a 2,500-year-old system of government still looked on today as the best system, because under a democratic system, the people govern themselves. But is that all there is to it? What is democracy? And how does it work …
Since the Gold Rush era, land reclamation projects have helped to build California, but they are also damaging the state’s environment for people, plants and animals by eliminating essential wetlands.
California has used reclamation districts to turn millions of acres of unusable swamps into fertile agricultural land, starting in the earliest days of the Gold Rush. Here’s how it happened.
The California Supreme Court has kept the state at the forefront of legal issues surrounding abortion, the death penalty and same-sex marriage, starting in its earliest days in the Gold Rush era.
Almost one million California residents are forced to drink from contaminated water supplies, or pay for bottled water. Economic inequality makes the crisis worse. What is the state doing to fix it?
Solar power, and a network of giant battery storage facilities, are playing an essential role in moving California toward its goal of exclusive reliance on renewable energy sources.
The history of transportation in California has shaped the state, from the railroads to today’s highways, making the need for planning increasingly urgent. Here’s how it all happened, and where we stand today.
Thousands of miles of railroad track, including some in Santa Cruz County, now sit idle. The fate of those largely abandoned tracks has become a burning controversy.
California keeps on taking legislative steps that will keep it ranked in the top 10 of voter-friendly states.
California has historically been ahead of the rest of the country in expanding the legal right to abortion services. Here’s what state laws say today, and how we got here.
San Benito County is filled with figments of days gone by, from an actual ghost town to the occasional cruising California condor, a relic from the Pleistocene.
Sacramento’s rich past can be explored by visiting its many and varied historical museums.
From Benito Link...
San Juan Bautista’s history and—perhaps more importantly—preserving that history were among the subjects of the joint March 4 Historic Resources Board & Planning Commission Meeting.
“Contemporary Indigenous Voices of California’s South Coast Range” is a unique and thought provoking exhibit coming to San Benito County starting Friday, March 15. The exhibition of rich and colorful portraits by documentary photographer and filmmaker Kirti Bassendine features Indigenous community members from the South Coast Range.
From SanBenitocom...
A photographic exhibition and screening of the documentary film “Contemporary Indigenous Voices of California’s South Coast Range” will be featured on March 15 in San Juan Bautista.
From The Sacramento Observer...
From Monterey Herald...
On Nov. 2 Arts Audacity, Hollister Downtown Association and Hollister High School hosted their 2nd annual Dias de los Muertos event.
From Gilroy Dispatch...
Saul Dreier, a survivor of the Holocaust and founder of the Holocaust Survivor Band, will speak and perform at a special event in Morgan Hill on Nov. 18.
The San Benito County Historical Park hosted a gathering to commemorate the county's creation 150 years after it split from Monterey County.
On February 12, 1874, San Benito County broke away from Monterey County, was officially established, and became its own. Which makes the county officially 150 years old this year.
Educating children in San Benito County has long been a source of pride for county residents.
From SF Gate...
From Los Angeles Times...
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