A Midwinter Check-In

Read on for information about the new Clara District under development near Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.

Read on to learn about the obstacles encountered by residents trying to rebuild in the aftermath of 2020's CZU Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Shopping carts and old televisions were among the items removed from Coyote Creek in San Jose by more than 80 volunteers working over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Read on for more information about the development of a new neighborhood of over 1,000 homes to begin construction in North San Jose.

Retired Los Altos School District Superintendent Jeff Baier has been hired as the interim superintendent of the Mountain View Whisman School District. Read on to learn more about him and the effort to find a permanent superintendent.

SAN JOSE OFFICIALS plan to make one neighborhood a “no return zone” for homeless people after hearing safety concerns from residents — but the mayor couldn’t confirm a date.

EAST SAN JOSE high school students and immigration advocates are protesting recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in San Jose.Hundreds of students from William C. Overfelt High School in East San Jose participated in a walkout Tuesday and marched to the intersection of Story and King roads, where residents reported seeing ICE agents Sunday.

In hour two of a meeting that stretched to nearly five, Josh Salcman, barely two months on the Palo Alto Unified School Board, said aloud what other school board members no doubt realize at some point in their first term: “I’m acutely aware that no matter how I vote, I’m going to deeply disappoint a large part of our community, including people whose friendship is important to me and whose opinions I hold in the highest regard.”

In their January 28 meeting, the Mountain View City Council approved new mobile home park rent control rules. Read on to learn what's changed.

In their January 28 meeting, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors held a long discussion about whether or not to ban artificial turf, in the end, opting not to. Read on to learn more.

AS SAN JOSE crunches the numbers in its upcoming budget, a larger than expected shortfall looms on the horizon, along with another round of department cuts and potential layoffs.San Jose initially anticipated a budget shortfall of $39 million for the upcoming 2025-26 fiscal year, but it has since ballooned to $60 million, according to a memo from City Manager Jennifer Maguire.

A 260-unit affordable housing project is in the works for Berryessa Road in San Jose. Read on for more information.

A look at 14 places in California where Black businesses and culture thrived.

Roughly a month after deadly wildfires erupted in Los Angeles County, killing at least 29 people, lawmakers in the state Senate have introduced a proposal to bolster Cal Fire staffing, and Gov. Gavin Newsom is meeting with President Donald Trump over disaster aid.

State Farm, which already has rate increase requests pending, asked state officials to approve more insurance price increases.

The California Community Foundation is accepting donations to help the folks impacted by the fires in Southern California. Consider donating today.

The statewide count of overwintering monarch butterflies shows a sharp drop in number. Read on to learn more.

For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent their winters along the California coast — huddling together in tall tree groves, finding respite from the wind from November to February.

The unusual move is alarming activists who worry they could be in the ordinance’s crosshairs.

Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, which supplies about one-third of California’s water needs, was far lower than average for the end of January at one of the state’s measurement points on January 31.

Read on to learn more about the Trump-ordered "emergency" release of water from two San Joaquin Valley reservoirs and how it is literally going down the drain (and not to preserve LA from fires as claimed).

Plaintiffs claimed that being evaluated on their commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility principles is unconstitutional and has a chilling effect on their free speech rights.

CHRIS BENNER AND MANUEL PASTOR have had front row seats to the changes taking place in the so-called Lithium Valley, the region around the Salton Sea, where a network of companies have hatched a plan for local and state government entities to mine vast quantities of lithium to use in the batteries that power electric vehicles.

Insurance companies have paid out $4.2 billion in claims so far to survivors of the Los Angeles County fires, the state Insurance Department said Thursday.

The number of monarch butterflies overwintering in California are at a near-record low, and the wiping out of the Topanga butterfly habitat by the LA fires has made matters worse. Read on to learn more.

Energy demands from big tech, including for AI, has elected officials giving an old power source a second look.

Struggling with prior cuts, California State University calls latest proposed budget cuts unacceptable. Read on to learn more.

In the wake of the fire earlier this month at Vistra Corporation’s Moss Landing Power Plant and Energy Storage Facility, the California Public Utilities Commission has proposed new standards for battery energy storage facilities.