Santa Clara County Local News

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.

The Peninsula Open Space Trust this week announced the purchase of over 1,300 acres of land on the southeast edge of Santa Cruz County, southwest of Gilroy.  

Learn more about the annual fundraising day on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, this year falling on December 3.

An introduction to the two candidates running for the California Congressional 15th District seat in the November 5 election.

A summary of campaign finance filings reveals the extent of contributions by the San Francisco 49ers to candidates running for office in Santa Clara.

The invasive Aedes aegypti mosquitos have been detected in more areas of Santa Clara County, prompting officials to hold meetings to discuss their response to the threat posed by the species. 

On November 1, Mountain View Whisman Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph announced his resignation. Click to learn how the school board is responding.

A summary of the latest campaign finance filings from the candidates running for seats on the Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education in the November 5 election.

A summary of the latest campaign finance filings for the candidates running for seats on the Mountain View Whisman School Board in the November 5 election.

A project to convert a former hotel on El Camino Real in Mountain View into supportive affordable housing has been completed and is now welcoming residents.

A project to potentially develop a site on East St. Jon Street in San Jose into affordable housing for seniors took a step forward with the purchase of the parcel by the Santa Clara County Housing Authority.

A summary of the campaign finance filings for the candidates running for the State Assembly District 26 seat reveals large sums from sources outside the district.

Sixty years ago, I was a reporter for the Klamath Falls (Oregon) Herald and News and with my family lived in a small house on the Link River, which flows out of Upper Klamath Lake, draining a large portion of the Cascade mountain range.

As part of a state authorized program, the City of San Jose is in the process of installing several speed cameras to test their effectiveness in improving traffic and pedestrian safety.

THE SALINAS VALLEY is the setting for fecund soil, labor rights movements and John Steinbeck novels.Squeezed into one 90-mile-long wedge between the Gabilan and Santa Lucia mountains, the valley’s residents constitute less than 1% of Californians but have shaped the identity of the whole state.

Low counts of spawning salmon could mean another year without fishing. Experts say the outlook still has time to turn around.

Homeless Californians face many barriers to casting a ballot, even in elections that affect their lives. Some counties and nonprofits are trying to boost turnout.

California motorists buy and consume a billion gallons of gasoline each month and are very sensitive about pump prices, which are markedly higher than those in other states. Naturally, they are a political football.

A strain of bird flu that imperiled California poultry and cattle has jumped to people. In humans, the symptoms are mild and the virus has not been transmitted among people.