[5] On February 28, 1997, McClatchy sold the Dispatch, along with the Hollister Free Lance, the Morgan Hill Times and the Amador Ledger, for $6.7 million to Independent Newspapers Ltd. of New Zealand.
[8] Michigan publishers Anthony Allegretti and Steve Staloch gained control of Central Valley's assets in a 2004 private equity-backed management buyout, assembling a group that included community newspapers in San Diego County, Santa Cruz, and California's Central Valley.
[12] The Dispatch and its sister paper, the Morgan Hill Times, launched South Valley magazine on July 15, 2016.
[14] After decades in a building at the south end of Monterey Street., the Dispatch returned to downtown in August 2016, moving its offices to 64 W 6th St.[15] The Gilroy Dispatch won 11 awards over a broad range of news categories, including three first-place awards, in the 2004 annual California Newspaper Publishers Association's Better Newspapers Contest.
Dispatch writer Michael Moore won a second-place award for In-Depth Reporting for a 2018 series of stories on the death of Steven Juarez while in police custody.