Santa Clara County Local News

Despite bleak fiscal forecast, the county managed to close the deficit in its $12.4 billion 2024-2025 budget.

A massive ice sports complex to be operated by the San Jose Sharks is a proposed addition to the Gilroy Sports Park.

Housing, climate change and inequity were among the topics for discussion as local community leaders met to discuss the most pressing needs in the region.

Local fifth-grader Bradley Hall donated $500 won during a book promotion tour by “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” author Jeff Kinney.

It is being called the Cicada-pocalypse and the Cicada-geddon. Over the next few weeks, hundreds of billions, maybe even trillions of cicadas — grasshopper-like insects — will emerge from underground burrows all across the Midwest and the South where they have been living for as long as the past 17 years.

More than half of the U.S. House supports a bill to extend the funds, but it can’t get out of committee.

At many universities across the country, graduation for the Class of 2024 will feel more like making it through airport security than a procession through a free-flowing campus green or a cheering stadium crowd.

It’s been more than 18 months since Apple Inc. last updated its iPad line, marking the longest gap in new models since Steve Jobs first unveiled the product in 2010. The drought finally ends on May 7.

Service connects at-home moms with working moms to provide accessible and affordable child care.

A mixed-use development of 75 condominiums and retail space is being proposed for 800 San Antonio Road in Palo Alto.

Hundreds of volunteers have signed up to participate in painting a mural on San Pedro Street in downtown San Jose.

The City of Mountain View is studying the state of local Internet service for a citywide broadband needs assessment.

The Palo Alto City Council faces hard choices for the redesign of three crossings of the rail corridor.

A threat of a legal challenge to at-large elections for Los Altos City Council has been issued.

Local resident Ibrahim Bashir announced his candidacy for one of three open seats on the Los Altos City Council.

The 130-unit Solaire Apartments affordable housing complex at 425 Auzerais Avenue in downtown San Jose has opened for occupancy.

Updates to address improved safety and dark streets.

During the much-ballyhooed “California exodus” amid the pandemic, remote workers moved to other states where they could live for a fraction of the cost compared to cities like Los Angeles or San Francisco.

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors approved a plan to reduce brush and vegetation along a 16-mile stretch of Skyline Boulevard between Los Gatos and Palo Alto.

Luz Cofresí-Howe has been named finance director for the City of Milpitas.