Sandhill Cranes, Foster Kids, and Coercive Compassion

Cupertino city staff will be on hand for in-person budget-related outreach at various locations throughout the city in April. 

The Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District board promoted assistant principal Dave Poetzinger to replace Kevin Buchanan as principal of Los Gatos High School.

The City of Santa Clara is struggling to maintain aging infrastructure and is now facing $624 million in unfunded repairs and upgrades, according to City Manager Jovan Grogan.

After sending more than a hundred California Highway Patrol officers to Oakland earlier this year for a fleeting crackdown on crime, Gov. Gavin Newsom is tapping Caltrans to help clear homeless camps near major freeways throughout the city.

Middle Schools in Mountain View are considering a new schedule with one less class to allocate more time for teaching across the day, with a weekly advisory period. 

A United Airlines flight from SFO to Paris was diverted to Denver when the crew of the Boeing 777-200 reported engine trouble.

As winter conditions wind down, the beginning of April is always the most important time for California's water managers to take stock of how much snow has fallen in the Sierra Nevada.
This year, something unusual happened.

Online meeting attacks of profane and hateful comments by so-called "Zoom bombers" infect Mountain View City Council meetings.

Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud.

The Mountain View City Council unanimously voted to approve zoning changes permitting emergency shelters in residential areas of the El Camino Real Precise Plan.

At a recent breakfast with local business leaders, PG&E executives outlined upcoming projects to improve reliability and increase capacity in the Silicon Valley region.

The Morgan Hill Unified School District is facing a multi-million dollar shortfall in budget and announced upcoming reductions of school staffing and other cuts.

Citing a sudden upcoming 65% rent increase as the reason, Gourmet Franks closed on March 17 after 43 years in business at Palo Alto's Stanford Shopping Center.

Katie Causey announced her candidacy for Palo Alto City Council in the November 24 election to fill one of three open seats.

Having recently raised their monthly salaries from $1000 to $1600, the Palo Alto City Council voted to form a citizen committee to consider another raise.

The developer for the 240 acre former golf course proposed amending plans to include 1.6M square feet of light industrial space in the stalled project.

Hundreds of residents in the Santa Cruz Mountains are facing limited access in and out of the area due to a creeping landslide affecting Mountain Charley Road.

Los Altos is making incremental improvements to the downtown with new trash bins, e-bike stations, solar lighting and the introduction of "parklets."

As energy costs go up and awareness of the environmental footprint increases, people are turning to energy consultants for energy audits and advice.

The nonprofit San Francisco Shakespeare Festival has produced free 90-minute shows in Cupertino's Memorial Park every summer for decades but now faces a budget shortfall.

The City of Palo and Stanford University are considering an option of converting a strip through El Camino Park into a road for buses.

Captains of fishing boats on the California coast are bracing for salmon fishing to be severely restricted — or possibly canceled for a second year.

According to emails obtained by CalMatters Capitol reporter Jeanne Kuang in response to a public records request, a range of employers have been trying to figure out if they must pay $20 ever since the law was signed late last September.

Disputes between insurers and providers can lead to entire hospital systems suddenly leaving the plans.

Evictions have exacerbated homelessness nationwide, increasing the rate of homeless infants and toddlers. Most of those children are not enrolled in early education programs.

After bringing his story all the way to the University of California Board of Regents, a disabled UC Berkeley student has prompted the UC to ensure emergency evacuation chairs are in every multi-storied building in the 10-university system.

Presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chose Oakland to announce his vice presidential pick on Tuesday, so it wasn’t too much of a shocker that his pick was Nicole Shanahan, a Bay Area tech attorney and philanthropist.

The goal is to eliminate habitat competition between "invasive" owls and native owls.

A judge ruled GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene can move forward with their lawsuit against two California cities where rallies were canceled.

Lawyers from the conservative Christian group that won the case to overturn Roe v. Wade are returning to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in pursuit of an urgent priority: shutting down access to abortion pills for women across the country.