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03/25/2024

Responding to a federal financial aid glitch, Caliifornia legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom within two weeks gave students an additional month to apply for state aid.

03/25/2024

Gov. Gavin Newsom made mental health a priority since he took office five years ago. The ballot initiative voters approved this month will provide billions of dollars to fund housing and treatment facilities for mentally ill Californians.

03/25/2024

Caregiver company ServingSeniors.Care fined for placing unscreened aides, some with criminal records, with elderly and disabled patients.

03/20/2024

Detectives said one day of videos in a coffeeshop restroom recorded images of 91 people, including many children, using the toilet.

03/19/2024

Thomas Truong was fired by Farmers Insurance after an insurance investigator uncovered the fraud.

03/19/2024

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mental health ballot measure 's lead is slipping, so Prop.1 foes are launching a campaign to find and fix rejected ballots.

03/18/2024

The eventual winner of that race between Joe Simitian and Evan Low will be decided by how many of the 1,880 voters who mailed in unsigned ballots show up in the next two weeks to sign their ballots.

03/15/2024

Weekend processing of ballots by voters who were same-day registrants and the results of challenges to others could leave the race to be Sam Liccardo’s opponent in November a virtual dead-heat.

03/14/2024

District Attorney Jeff Rosen has decided not to charge Rebecca Eisenberg for theft charges, which had been sought by Valley Water CEO Rick Callender when Eisenberg in January took home a copy of the report that accused her of the …

03/12/2024

Many Californians were undecided heading into Election Day on Gov. Newsom’s Proposition 1, which funds new mental health treatment facilities. As of noon Tuesday with about 5.8 million votes counted, the measure was leading by a margin of 50.3% to …

03/12/2024

As of 4:25pm March 12, Joe Simitian had amassed 16.8% of the primary votes, compared to 16.7% for Evan Low. Meanwhile, Former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo's lead over the pair held steady today, with 21.5% of the votes in …

03/12/2024

Rock stars are not superhuman beings. As a result, just like everyone, they also have interests and hobbies. Therefore, rock stars engage in skills that interest them when they are not in the studio recording songs or making music. Occasionally, …

03/09/2024

Voters authorized the Legislature to go to standard or daylight saving time year-round, but nearly six years later no law is on the books. It takes a two-thirds vote, and also congressional action to go to daylight saving year-round.

03/08/2024

As expected, Mayor Matt Mahan easily won re-election, avoiding a November runoff with 87.8% of the vote, as ballot counting continued through Thursday.

03/07/2024

In addition to outright winners in local races in the March primary, Matt Mahan, David Cohen and Otto Lee, another 11 local politicians emerged from the early ballot counts as shoo-ins for November, because they are already comfortably separated from …

03/07/2024

Incumbent members of Congress, Ro Khanna, Zoe Lofgren, Jimmy Panetta, win easily in a preview of the November vote.

03/06/2024

As expected Mayor Matt Mahan easily won re-election, avoiding a November runoff with 87.6% of the ballots counted Tuesday.

03/06/2024

No other city in California except Santa Clara still has an elected police chief. Less than 20% of the municipalities in the state have an elected city clerk.

03/06/2024

Prosecutors said the Gilroy home of suspect Markus Beck was heavily saturated with propane gas from the kitchen stove, but did not explode. No one was hurt in the crash, the arrest, or at the home,

03/05/2024

Separated from the rest of the pack in early returns were: Liccardo, with 18,906 followed by Simitian with 15,363 and Low with 13,563 votes. These numbers include both San Mateo and Santa Clara vote counties.

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