After a prolonged transition, the Hollister Democrat was sworn in as Assembly speaker today, taking over from Anthony Rendon of Southern California. It’s been a meteoric ascent for the 43-year-old who grew up in farmworker housing, and worked as a high school counselor and community college teacher while serving as a San Benito County supervisor.

The complaint is the second lawsuit to declare that project in northern San Benito County would harm cultural resources and threaten the environment.

This delivery is the first of the initial 17,550 doses allocated to the county by the state, 230 of which will go to San Benito County.

In three major clusters, they darkened skies, forced thousands to flee home and pushed California’s firefighting capacity to the brink.

Cal Fire announced new evacuation orders for the eastern edge of Santa Clara County, where the SCU Complex keeps growing.

Authorities continue to warn of harmful air quality as smoke drifts into Santa Clara Valley from numerous wildfires burning around the region.

AB 3005, dubbed the Expedited Dam Safety for Silicon Valley Act, was authored by Assemblyman Robert Rivas (D-Hollister).

Five employees from Good Samaritan Hospital are at home self-isolating after being potentially exposed to the coronavirus.

Santa Clara County public health officials have confirmed a second case of the coronavirus strain that made its way from China.

There’s some worry that a state policy will prevent independent absentee voters from participating in the presidential candidate nomination.

Bold. That’s how Robert Rivas, newly elected 30th District assemblyman describes himself, his leadership style and his campaign. 

Big Oil has put Robert Rivas in the crosshairs, marking the first time the industry has targeted a local candidate running for higher office.

The two-hour drive between Silicon Valley’s southern tip and Coalinga is a descent from heaven to hell, Andy Hsia-Coron says. It’s a landscape—stark and lifeless—that he’d like to prevent from taking shape in San Benito County, his home of nearly three decades. Whether that’s even a threat is a subject of contention.