Santa Clara County Local News

Immigration advocates are sounding the alarm over the prospect of mass deportations upending California immigrant communities, which Donald Trump has vowed to initiate when he returns to the White House in January.

Track updates to a Palo Alto University Avenue housing development application which adds two stories to the height of the project.

California wants to protect witnesses in workplace investigations from deportation, but the Biden administration program for undocumented employees is at risk with Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Check here for the latest official election results from the Santa Clara County election department.

President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on implementing a sweeping border crackdown and undertaking the largest-scale deportation effort in history. If carried out, his proposed initiatives will have profound consequences in California, which shares a 140-mile border with Mexico.

Experts don’t know how much gas prices may rise from the revised California climate program, which tightens standards and gives incentives for low-carbon fuels. The board ordered an annual review of the cost impacts.

In a ribbon cutting ceremony on November 7, officials celebrated the opening of a new Santa Clara County-operated health clinic in Palo Alto on November 13. Learn more about this newest clinic in the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center network in the article.

You are invited to the newly completed Gourmet Alley public pedestrian plaza served by bars and restaurants in downtown Gilroy.

Learn how the Mountain View Whisman School Board is moving forward following the resignation of Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph and the hiring of two seasoned administrators to serve for the remainder of the school year.

California’s Senate will reach gender parity, but depending on the outcome of some close contests, that could extend to the whole Legislature.

Newsom wants the new Legislature to ‘protect’ California from Donald Trump on civil rights, reproductive freedom, climate action, and immigrant families. The session will start Dec. 2.

A lot is at stake with the new Trump administration: California’s water projects, its unique authority to clean its air, federal support for offshore wind and disaster aid for wildfires.

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Get the latest details about a planned industrial and manufacturing center slated to be built on a 32 acre parcel in north San Jose.

Find out which candidates and measures on the Mountain View ballot won in the November election.

Voters have approved a measure to extend Quarry Road to the Palo Alto Transit Center.

The Associated Press reports that Sam Licardo will be representing Silicon Valley in Congress.

In the wake of firing Superintendent Mary Ann Dewan, the Santa Clara County Office of Education is seeking to do an audit of district finances. Learn why in the article.

Learn more about the Los Alto City Council approval of updated ordinances banning single-use plastic in restaurants and stores.

Learn more about how the just-passed $10 billion climate bond measure will fund resiliency projects across the state.