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Commuters across Silicon Valley are stranded as VTA’s workers walk the picket lines and negotiations are at a standstill.

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said he wants to see measurable improvements in homelessness and public safety before doling out pay raises for top city officials.

South San Jose property owners want code enforcement to spend more time working with them on potential violations rather than punishing them.

When it comes to Northern California’s largest public hospital system, Santa Clara County leaders fear they're building a sandcastle at low tide.

San Jose City Council District 3 candidates shared their ideas on how they'd represent the downtown on Thursday at a forum hosted by San José Spotlight and San Jose Woman’s Club. Seven candidates are vying for the vacant seat in …

Foreign workers are arriving in Silicon Valley at record levels while the general labor force is getting older and leaving in droves — driven away by soaring housing and health care costs and enabled by the seismic shifts of remote …

Hundreds of thousands of dollars are pouring into a special election to represent San Jose’s downtown neighborhoods on the City Council for the next two years.

Los Gatos could be looking at an estimated $5.6 million deficit for fiscal year 2025-26, a significant number for a town with a roughly $60 million budget for the current fiscal year. The shortfall is largely due to anticipated revenue …

Morgan Hill residents should prepare for significant traffic disruptions as Valley Water begins the final phase of the Upper Llagas Creek Flood Protection Project, a long-awaited infrastructure improvement meant to transform the city’s flood management capabilities.

The mayor of San Jose wants to penalize homeless people who refuse shelter by arresting or hospitalizing them, punting the service-resistant onto Santa Clara County for care.

With cuts to federal staff and uncertainty over the federal budget looming, Santa Clara County agencies tasked with housing thousands of people are worried lifesaving services will be curtailed and homelessness will rise.

California Democrats on Thursday distanced themselves from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent comments on transgender athletes, saying they are committed to protecting equality even as their state’s leader sides with a prominent right-wing figure on inclusion in sports.

The Gilroy City Council will transition to district elections after receiving a demand letter under the California Voting Rights Act.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney has declined to formally charge Stanford University student journalist Dilan Gohill for covering on a pro-Palestinian protest last year, after he faced allegations of committing multiple felonies.

Sunnyvale is trying a new approach to homeless encampment sweeps by putting people in motels and giving them an opportunity to make necessary life changes.
The city on Feb. 26 placed about 25 unhoused people in 18 rooms across two …

One of Cupertino’s most dangerous roads will soon become safer for cyclists.

The Los Gatos Town Council unanimously approved a 155-townhome development on March 4 to replace the Los Gatos Lodge.

The Highway 17 trek back and forth “over the hill” between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz—with its rush-hour chaos and treacherous turns on rainy days—is a route many are all too familiar with.

Downtown San Jose voters will receive ballots next week for a special election to decide who will represent them for the next two years.

San Jose leaders are partnering with PG&E to grow the city's electrical infrastructure — and they want the utility giant to pay for more city employees.

With San Jose’s second safe parking site opening, dozens of homeless people living in RVs have a place to land without fear of getting swept — and can be connected to services to help them get back on their feet.

Special educators serving Silicon Valley’s disabled and most vulnerable children are about to be laid off.

Small business optimism across the nation fell a bit in January but for the third consecutive month, came in higher than its 51-year average, according to the release Feb. 11 of the monthly Small Business Optimism Index by the National …

The contract between a Silicon Valley public transit agency and its frontline employees ends Monday — and negotiations have stalled.

An Ohio media company spent thousands of dollars lobbying San Jose officials to vote in favor of new digital billboards downtown — and succeeded.