The Folks Who Gave You the Beach

Sunnyvale plans to add more housing near its transit hubs with a unique project that incorporates multiple bedrooms and bathrooms per apartment.

It’s been four years since officials unveiled an ambitious proposal to build a world-class landmark in Silicon Valley, but a new dispute over who should manage Plaza de Cesar Chavez may further delay the project.

Antora Energy Inc., a startup that has developed a way of storing energy as heat inside carbon blocks, is opening a major manufacturing plant. The 50,000-square-foot facility will serve as the initial production line for the Sunnyvale startup’s so-called thermal batteries.

Los Altos Hills City Council members voted unanimously to remove 12871 Atherton Ct. from the town’s “inventory of historic sites and structures,” after current owner Anthony Scott told the council he could not sell the 1910-era house otherwise.

One of San Jose’s most dangerous streets will be getting new safety features to protect children going to school.

Citing its growing stature and a legal conflict, the Cities Association of Santa Clara County is hoping to form a joint powers authority—but city officials in Palo Alto have some concerns.

Tempers flared when Milpitas nixed a property owner’s plans to build a multistory house on the city’s hillside.

San Jose Police Department Sgt. Tam Truong, 41, is jumping into the District 8 race to represent the Evergreen area.

San Jose leaders have reluctantly agreed to a plan to convert hundreds of hotel rooms into student housing amid concerns it will harm tourism.

Santa Clara residents may soon decide if the police chief should be appointed rather than elected. The Santa Clara Charter Review Committee voted unanimously to recommend putting ballot measures before voters to make the police chief and city clerk appointed positions.

The rapidly rising cost of construction materials and labor prices, along with the impacts of inflation, have boosted the anticipated cost of the final phase of VTA’s BART to Silicon Valley completion from $9.3 billion to $12.2 billion.

The committee settled on a plan to phase out a controversial billing system that relies on shared or master meters to charge tenants.

More than 40 states are suing the social media giant. The legal actions allege that Meta has deceived the public about the harms of Facebook and Instagram, which the attorneys general say “exploit and manipulate” children.

In partnership with the Marshall Project, Grist publishes an illustrated story about how decades-old decisions to build two California prisons in a dry lakebed left 8,000 incarcerated people at risk when Tulare Lake flooded.

The report, published in the journal Nature Climate Communications, is a warning that one of the worst sea-level rise scenarios scientists have cautioned about since the 1970s is most likely in progress and that little can be done to stop it.

Written by Center for Biological Diversity scientist Tiffany Yap and illustrated by artist Meital Smith, “Tales of the Urban Wild: A Puma’s Journey” takes the reader through diverse habitats, across busy freeways and inside science labs to learn about one mountain lion’s survival story.

After years of planning a broadband system to bridge California’s digital divide, officials deprioritized some low-income areas due to unexpected costs. Gov. Gavin Newsom says he’s committed to funding the entire network, but advocates are skeptical.

Tiny homes are increasingly California cities’ shelter option of choice — but how far they go in solving homelessness is a contentious question.