County of Santa Clara Government News

Final counts reveal that more than 10,000 letters were submitted to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors during the public comment period for the Sargent Ranch Quarry Draft Environmental Impact Report.

Santa Clara County is experiencing a surge of domestic violence cases, spreading county prosecutors thin and holding up court hearings at a time when a looming budget deficit will cut District Attorney resources.

More than 10,000 comments submitted to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voice concerns about proposed open-pit mine at Juristac’s sacred tribal land.

Santa Clara County leaders are calling on state officials to stop a for-profit hospital from closing one of the county’s only trauma centers.

Santa Clara County may need an abundance of lawn mowers if artificial turf is banned on public playing fields.

Thousands of nurses across Santa Clara County’s strained and overburdened public hospital system may go on strike again — just weeks after taking to the picket line.

Authorities in Santa Clara County are trying to eradicate an “aggressive” species of mosquito before it can become established, a spokesperson for the county said April 11.

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen is moving to eliminate the county’s death row, looking to sentence the 15 local men still sitting on it to serve life in prison without the chance of parole instead, according to an April 5 press release.

A study of Santa Clara County’s public contracts shows only a fraction goes to small, local businesses.

Low-income residents in Santa Clara County are losing their state-sponsored health care at a time when the public hospital system is experiencing unprecedented demand for services.

Hundreds of nurses who work at Saint Louise Regional Hospital are on strike, joining the picket line with their colleagues represented by the Registered Nurses Professional Association.

The nurses’ union says county management failed to bargain in good faith around working conditions and safety issues that impact nurses and patient care.

Former Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith has lost her appeal of a court case that barred her from public office in 2022.

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has approved a proposal from supervisors Joe Simitian and Cindy Chavez to formally engage the California Public Utilities Commission about AT&T’s application to withdraw as California’s “Carrier of Last Resort.”

Santa Clara County officials may help finance San Jose’s multimillion-dollar safe parking efforts and set up more sites on unused public property for the region's homeless residents.

For every one Santa Clara County household that was housed in 2023, nearly two households became homeless, a recent report reveals.

This year, a multimillion-dollar deficit will force county leaders to reckon with a decade-long overspending crisis in the Sheriff's Office.

His poetry will now reach wider, perhaps more mainstream local audiences, as he begins serving two years as the new Santa Clara County Poet Laureate.