Santa Clara County Local News

The controversial idea of cash reparations divided even Black advocates in the legislature this year. Here’s what’s next.

A revised application has been filed for a mixed-use development of offices and 88 housing units on University Avenue in Palo Alto.

With the publishing of the final Environmental Impact Statement by the federal government, the effort to designate 116 miles of California coast a marine sanctuary achieved an important milestone.

A proposal has been floated to develop the Charleston Plaza shopping center in Mountain View into a community of offices, retail and housing.

Lawmakers approved two bills to allow some community colleges to provide bachelor’s degrees in nursing. That’s setting up another conflict with the California State University, which already offers these bachelor’s degrees.

The mayors of Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Foster City and Half Moon Bay have all voiced support for pursuing a regional plan to address local homelessness.

Documents filed with Santa Clara County show planning is underway to develop new housing on the 113-acre site of the former Pleasant Hills Golf Course in east San Jose.

California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the money was spent and what effect it’s had, other than the number of unhoused people has continued to climb.

The California School Dashboard makes it hard for the public to see how schools and districts are performing over multiple years, concludes the report's lead author.

Information about how the state’s K-12 students are performing is located on several sites and is difficult to understand, a new report finds.

Inland communities with big population booms will experience the most extreme heat days under climate change projections. The combination puts more people at risk — and many cities are unprepared.

California voters passed Proposition 22 four years ago. The ballot initiative, backed by Uber, Lyft and other gig companies, promised the state’s more than 1 million gig workers new benefits, such as guaranteed minimum earnings, health care stipends, occupational accident insurance and accidental death insurance.

On September 3, the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency reported a bat discovered in Soquel had tested positive for rabies.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.