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First lady Jill Biden made a pit stop in Los Gatos last week, speaking at a fundraiser hosted by Shannon Hunt-Scott, the wife of Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott. It was part of a three-day burst of campaigning to boost the president’s reelection chances,...

As California braces for peak wildfire season, Gov. Gavin Newsom joined state fire officials June 29 to highlight new fire suppression equipment and technology, and also remind residents that wildfires are still inevitable despite record rain and snow levels.  Newsom said that Californians are living...

Santa Clara County is outpacing the state in uptake of the omicron-specific Covid-19 booster vaccine across all eligible age groups, the county's top health official said. Roughly one-third of county residents ages 65 and up have received the updated booster compared to just 24.3 percent...

Police to get three new SUVs Council has authorized $125,037 to replace three police cruisers that are nearly four years old and have an average of 60,000 miles on their odometers. The money to purchase the vehicles from Folsom Lake Ford, voted on during the regularly...

For the second-year running, the Rotary Club of Los Gatos’ Crab Fest has been held on one of the rainiest days of the year. Yet on Saturday night, there was a sell-out crowd at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church hall in Saratoga, as community members...

Editor—Following last week’s op-ed about the autonomous vehicle expansion down the peninsula towards Los Gatos, we figured it was high time to send reporter Dinah Cotton out to get a sense of what locals think about sharing their roads with robots… Just about everyone I...

With all the controversy surrounding California’s mandated housing bill, let’s take a look back to a time when our very own Town Council considered making an even more draconian move. During the 1960s, downtown businesses were losing customers to the popular new concept of shopping...

A popular dog hotel will pay $150,000 to settle a consumer protection lawsuit with Bay Area prosecutors' offices, which accused the company of failing to report dog bites among other health and safety lapses, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. The prosecutors...

It was a chilly morning in January, 1953 when 11-year-old Elena Lim arrived in Los Gatos. Her widowed father decided that he was unable to care for her so he surrendered her to the missionaries at Ming Quong. Elena was unkempt, malnourished and had been...

About 150 parents have been toiling away on plans for the carnival set to be unveiled at Los Gatos High School to send seniors off into the wider world in style. The Class of 2022 Grad Night committee has about 75 co-chairs, as the community...