The 42nd annual local festival was scheduled to take place May 27-28 in downtown Morgan Hill, but the nonprofit Mardi Gras organization that produces the Mushroom Festival still plans to host an entertaining summer fundraising event.

Crews will soon begin digging 24-foot tunnel into the Anderson reservoir near Morgan Hill.

Komodo Fire Systems of Morgan Hill worked with firefighters and volunteers from throughout the Bay Area.

A federal jury convicted 65-year-old Johnny Ray Wolfenbarger last August of attempted production of child pornography, the attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in child pornography production, and the receipt of child pornography.

An evacuation center was set up Friday evening at the Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center, 17000 Monterey Road.

RYDE is expanding to three new San Jose ZIP codes, 95118, 95119, and 95122, which were chosen based on their lack of transportation options as well as larger senior populations, expanding from Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno and Morgan Hill.

After a weekend of lobbying, jockeying and speculating, then a flurry of parliamentary maneuvers and a six-hour closed-door caucus meeting on Tuesday, Rivas’ campaign for speaker ended abruptly. California Assembly Democrats decided to keep their current leader, Speaker Anthony Rendon

Judge Julie A. Emede, ruling in favor of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit brought against the city of Morgan Hill by former Mayor Steve Tate and three other residents, said the redistricting map approved by the council in March violates the California Fair Maps Act.

The California High-Speed Rail board approved a controversial alignment for a portion of the Merced to San Jose route.

The supervisors unanimously approved the purchase of four properties, creating 324 affordable housing units: two in San Jose, one in Morgan Hill and one in Santa Clara.

Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was arrested Feb. 28 after he allegedly chased and shot at Harry Goularte, a 43-year-old man suspected of touching a 4-year-old child inappropriately at a childcare business in San Martin.

Cain Velasquez arraigned on attempted murder charges in relation to Feb. 28 shooting.

Proponents are targeting laws such as Senate Bill 9, which took effect Jan. 1, and allows for a property zoned single-family to be split for a duplex without a public hearing.

Robert Foster, 48, of Morgan Hill, pleaded no contest to a series of felony fraud charges in connection with his security business and will be sentenced to three years in county jail and two years of mandatory supervision. Foster will repay $1.13 million to Everest National Insurance and the Employment Development Department.

The zoning changes will limit the number of single-family homes that can be built across the parts of Coyote Valley that do not fall within the boundaries of the cities of San Jose and Morgan Hill. 

Hale Lumber Company, a Morgan Hill family-owned business established in 1945, will close to make way for 49 homes, in a more pedestrian-friendly vision of the downtown area.