The Importance of Planning

Recent efforts to redirect Measure E monies meant for affordable housing in San Jose have brought to light 13 of those projects waiting for city funding to start construction. That waitlist is keeping more than 1,500 new homes off the …

Santa Clara County is moving forward with a series of actions to support family caregivers in response to a recent county survey that found caregivers need more resources.

The preservation action fulfills a long-term vision to protect agriculture and build climate resiliency on the coast.

Voters in the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District narrowly approved the district’s first parcel tax in more than a dozen years by a narrow eight-vote margin, according to the election offices in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.

Youth sports nonprofits in Santa Clara are asking the city to drop its fees to book fields, and officials are looking for a compromise.

As Los Gatos prepared to finally adopt a compliant Housing Element—after 20 residential proposals were submitted during the purgatory period when the Silicon Valley community was out of line with State law, including a live one that includes a 12-story …

A decision is near on whether to proceed with a futuristic transit system between San Jose’s airport and train station downtown, five years after officials started soliciting partners to build it.

Stratford School’s Los Gatos campuses are kicking-off their Summer@Stratford summer camp programs this week.

"Backyard homes" are about to get easier and faster to build for residents living in unincorporated Santa Clara County.

San Jose is facing its most challenging budget environment since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Matt Mahan wrote in his June budget message June 4 — with funding meant for affordable housing construction on the line.

The Gilroy Department of Motor Vehicles office will be temporarily closed for renovations from June 19-Sept. 3, the state DMV said in a press release.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said that $60,000 will be awarded to community organizations and groups to aid local disadvantaged youth of color.

Los Gatos resident Inna Zaltsmann knows the dangers of Blossom Hill Road firsthand, with three serious car crashes near her home, including one where her daughter, a nurse, attempted to give CPR to a woman who died.

San Pedro Square has come a long way since the dumpy Sizzler on the corner and the Aconda flophouse across the street. Now it’s covered with paint.

State and federal funding for affordable housing took a steep drop in Santa Clara County last year, putting more of a burden on local governments to address the housing crisis.

The new Lamchin Interpretive Center, sharing the story of the original inhabitants of this land, and the Spring Creek Trail open at Filoli.

Santa Clara County leaders this year may move forward with overhauling how they’re elected with a system called ranked choice voting.

A new Cupertino park and trail expansion 20 years in the making is one step closer to construction, and advocates say it could create more equity across the city.

San Jose teachers are protesting a broken promise made by the largest school district in the city.

Santa Clara County may lose millions of property tax dollars to charter schools while teetering on the edge of a fiscal cliff.