Santa Clara County Local News

Caltrains reported on April 12 that transit police are investigating a fatality on the track near the
California Avenue station.

Parents raised concerns about the new Kathryn Hughes Elementary School principal at a recent the Santa Clara Unified Board of Trustees meeting during public comments.

The San Jose City Council passed laws to ban homeless encampments near schools and placed restrictions on RV and lived-in vehicle parking.

A California Republican’s bill would exempt low and middle income wildfire victims from solar panels requirements on rebuilt homes that didn’t have them when they burned down.

California's reservoirs are brimming with water, and even Shasta Lake could fill up.

The Planning Commission considering a 44 unit Palo Alto teacher housing development in the Ventura neighborhood remains unconvinced as to tenant affordability.

In its annual review of Capital Improvement Projects, the city is considering how to prioritize over 300 planned infrastructure projects in the face of tightening budgets.

A majority of the guns found were loaded, according to the TSA.

In its April 9 meeting, the Mountain View City Council considered changes in the R3 zoning regulations to promote housing density and growth in designated areas.

These professionals provide essential services, but their pay and working conditions do not reflect their value, and their health suffers.

There’s so little data available, it’s impossible to even tell if several of California’s largest homelessness programs are working, according to a statewide audit released Tuesday.

A program that allows solo drivers of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles to use carpool lanes on freeways and bridges in California may be removed for good next year.

Anti-tax groups in California have qualified a measure for the November ballot that would make raising state and local taxes much more difficult. It’s a showdown that’s been building for nearly five decades.

Thirty years after prisoners with disabilities sued the state of California and 25 years after a federal court first ordered accommodations, a judge found that state prison and parole officials still are not doing enough to help deaf and blind prisoners.

Across the country, cities have begun experimenting with artificial intelligence to map potholes, reduce traffic and fight wildfires. In San Jose, officials are now harnessing the rapidly evolving technology with another goal in mind: detecting homeless encampments.

A person trespassing on Caltrain tracks early Sunday died after being hit by a train. Authorities have not determined what caused the collision or why the person was on the tracks.

The Oakland Ballers are an independent team, unaffiliated with Major League Baseball, and they hope to incorporate some of the Savannah Bananas’ silly spirit into what they’re doing.

None of the 105 passengers or five crew members on the plane, United Airlines Flight 2181, an Airbus A319, was injured. The flight was arriving from Reno and headed next from San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale, flight records show. The other plane was parked.

To understand the mind-boggling, consequential power of just one vote in this year's historic District 16 congressional primary, take a stroll through downtown Saratoga, the heart of Santa Clara County's Precinct No. 4692.

I thought my journalism and others’ could change policy, perhaps even inspire a New Deal-style response equal to the challenge. Such was my naiveté.