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A 2.2-acre lot on West San Carlos Street near downtown San Jose is under consideration for development of over 200 units of affordable housing.

A profile by the Los Altos Town Crier of the six candidates running for two open seats on the Cupertino Union School District Board in November.

Following a July 8 summary judgement against their suit claiming a city-commissioned Black Lives Matter mural constituted workplace harassment, six Palo Alto police officers entered a filing on August 20 seeking to overturn the ruling so they could pursue their complaint.

Following the direction of the Federal Aviation Commission, the City of San Jose began clearing a homeless encampment from under a flight path serving San Jose Mineta International Airport.

The Los Altos Town Crier presents profiles of the three candidates running for two seats on the Mountain View-Los Altos High School District Board in November.

A report on a meeting of the Los Altos City Council and local residents considering three different maps showing proposed district boundaries for new council election districts.

Some large affordable housing projects are in the pipeline for development along El Camino Real in Palo Alto.

A look at some of the over 1,000 homeless students are enrolled in Santa Clara County public schools.

The City of Palo Alto is considering how best to manage the abundance of shopping areas mixed with the abundance of empty store fronts, especially on California and University Avenues.

In their August 28 meeting. the Morgan Hill City Council voted to increase wastewater rates incrementally every year through 2028.

A permit was denied for a tobacco shop on El Camino Real in Mountain View, citing the proximity to parks and schools where children congregate.

A look at the five local candidates running for seats on the Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education.

A proposal for a 205-unit all-affordable housing development on an empty lot on West Julian Street in downtown San Jose has been filed.

The City of Saratoga has partnered with nonprofit Our City Forest to offer free or subsidized trees as part of a program to encourage residential tree planting.

A proposed market-rate housing project for Lick Avenue in San Jose has been updated to instead build 215 affordable homes as the first phase of a 565-unit project.

A profile of IdaRose Sylvester, running for a seat on the Mountain View City Council in November.

A look at incumbent Los Altos Hills Councilmember Linda Swan who is running for reelection on the November ballot.

San Jose City Councilmember Arjun Batra joined in opposition of a planned Santa Clara County purchase of the South San Jose interim housing sites for use in a jail diversion program.

Almost everyone in California has health insurance. That trend reflects about a decade and a half of policymaking designed to expand access to health care. The state’s average uninsured rate has dropped from nearly one in four Californians in 2009 to less than one in ten today.

CalFire received the first of five planes promised by the federal government, a former Coast Guard C-130 Hercules air tanker.

California’s unemployment rate, 5.2% of its labor force in July, is no longer the nation’s highest after months of having that dubious distinction.

Unable to jam through bills he says will lower California gas prices, Gov. Newsom calls the Legislature back into session.

The Legislature is willing to guarantee $500 million annually to affordable housing developers, but with a caveat.

A large apartment complex in San Rafael’s majority-Latino Canal neighborhood. Latino families in Marin County are far more likely than white families to have trouble making ends meet, a new report finds.

Early warning systems save lives during disasters, but a recent FEMA survey found that only a third of people are signed up. Use this resource to find your county’s emergency alert sign-up page.

Some Democrats are pushing bills that could put their colleagues on the hot seat in an election year. The authors say they’re representing their constituents and there’s never a perfect time for votes.

California Highway Patrol officers received historically high raises in 2022 and 2023, but it continues to face a high vacancy rate of 16%.

Pharmacy benefit managers attempt to negotiate cost savings for insurers. California is considering new rules that would require them to pass their discounts on to consumers.

A trio of California Democratic lawmakers say they’re frustrated by high cost estimates that helped kill their health care legislation. Did the Newsom administration inflate the numbers to quietly kill the bills?

About 4 in 10 Californians are carrying medical debt. Lawmakers are advancing a bill that would prevent that debt from affecting credit scores.