Santa Clara County Local News

After numerous submissions were denied, the California Department of Housing and Community Development has approved the City of Palo Alto plan to build more than 6,000 new units of housing.

A parking lot on South Second Street in downtown San Jose is the site of a proposed housing development of several hundred units.

Schools that banned phones a few years ago have advice for other districts as the governor calls for a crackdown.

The Los Gatos Town Council named Chris Constantin as the new city manager.

Estimates for the cost of the Diridon Station development range from $3 billion to $10 billion.

As work approaches to repave El Camino Real, officials in Palo Alto are working to expand safe parking space for the dozens of RVs which will need to be moved.

With 830 bills in the dreaded Senate and Assembly suspense files, legislators were busy August 15 killing about a third of them.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bills that aim to make it easier to prosecute retail theft. He’s asking voters to reject a ballot measure that would impose even tougher penalties.

The Sacramento Bee explains Propisition 36, the anti-crime measure on the November Ballot.

Backers pulled a $20 billion affordable housing bond off Bay Area ballots today, amid fears that it wouldn’t pass.

The EPA must grant a waiver before the diesel truck measure can be implemented. It’s one of California’s most controversial measures to clean up air pollution and greenhouse gases.

The anti-crime Proposition 36 on the November ballot is being backed by San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan.

As the filing deadline passed, a total of nine candidates are officially running for seats on the Palo Alto City Council.

Proposition 32 to increase the minimum wage from $16 isn’t as far-reaching as when it was first proposed. Fast food workers are already making more, and health care employees are on track. But worker groups are already pushing for more.

The Palo Alto City Council approved neighborhood parking permits for employees of some El Camino Real businesses.

Some California agencies are offering incentives and hosting workshops for school districts that want to build affordable housing for teachers.

The state’s landlords see rising insurance costs, so they say they’re going to have to raise rents. But they complain about laws that limit how much they can do so.

A look at the burned down, boarded up and deserted properties increasing urban blight in San Jose.

Sky-high rent is among Californians’ biggest concerns. Nearly 30% of tenants spend more than half their income on rent; and the median rent is $2,850 a month, 33% higher than the national average.

Two propositions on the Nov. 5 ballot address this issue — though one does so in a rather roundabout way.

Legislators are pushing ahead with a retail theft bill package in their continued opposition of Proposition 36 — a November ballot measure backed by law enforcement groups and Republicans (and some Democrats) that would roll back parts of 2014’s Prop. 47.