Though it received fewer votes than a competing initiative, some provisions of a Costa Mesa City Council-sponsored growth measure are still set to go into effect, officials confirmed this week. As a ...

Hollister is 45 miles south of downtown San Jose — a small town that can seem a world away from the freeways and office towers of Silicon Valley. But a measure heading to voters this fall could have ...

San Benito County doesn’t have a whole lot of residents. Even though its land area — a vast scenic landscape of ranchlands, row crops and rolling hills — is the same size as its adjacent neighbor, ...