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As you approach former Saratoga mayor Jill Hunter’s front door, you can’t help but notice her blooming backyard garden basking in the sun. Step inside, and her keen eye for plants is obvious. They are the center of attention. What else would you expect from someone...

I'm a freshman at Los Gatos High School, and, as part of a Boy Scouts project for Troop 339, I've decided to contact you about a subject of concern: the ongoing housing developments in Los Gatos. Many of Los Gatos’ citizens feel these developments are...

As of today, the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District has a new trustee. Shawn Mortensen was described by a District spokesperson as "a dedicated Los Gatos High School parent" who is currently serving as the president of the school’s Home & School Club. He...

In these hyper-partisan times, Democrats and Republicans can’t seem to agree on much. That includes the members of the California Legislature. Of the 2,278 bills lawmakers submitted by the deadline last week, only 11 had Republicans and Democrats as joint lead authors, according to a...

The Santa Clara County District Attorney has declined to formally charge Stanford University student journalist Dilan Gohill for covering on a pro-Palestinian protest last year, after he faced allegations of committing multiple felonies. The student, who was reporting for the Stanford Daily, a student-run newspaper,...

Parham Pourahmad stands in the hills of Ed Levin County Park in Milpitas, waiting for the perfect moment to snap a bird of prey in its natural habitat. Suddenly, a Cooper’s hawk swoops down. It begins to claw apart a squirrel. Pourahmad aims his Sigma 150-600mm...

Julius Caesar, a name synonymous with power, ambition and—ultimately—betrayal, met his fate on the Ides of March. While we remember this date for the fall of a Roman emperor, the Ides of March also offers us a chance to rise to a different kind...

Did Blum’s comedic Los Gatan article fill a pothole? My recent Los Gatan piece, a brief foray into levity after a series of my more usual serious columns, featured a few lines about the “Grand Canyon-sized pothole” on the Highway 17 north on-ramp. I even mused,...

“March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.” No predictions here, as March may come in like a lamb and leave like a lion. After all, it is spring, and weather can change in a “New York minute.” On the 9th, our clocks...

The day after he received word he’d won another valuable grant from the US Navy to help America up its undersea exploration game—and a few days after meeting with Meta officials in London about their plan to lay $10 billion worth of fiber optic...