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In early July, Los Gatans Rosemary Coates and John Eichinger found themselves on a plane headed to the 30th Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair. This trip was organized by the Silicon Valley Division of the China-US Business Summit and led by Diana WeiPing Ding, its...

Last week, locals celebrated as 25-year-old mountain biker Haley Batten clinched the silver at the Olympics for the United States. Now, her brother has been sharing with the Los Gatan about how this impressive achievement was made possible, in part, due to the training she...

Civic Center Park was teeming with people Sunday evening as the Country Cougars got the crowd relaxin’, toe-tappin’ and line dancin’. The free weekly event series runs from 5-7pm each week until the end of the month. Next up is Bootjuice on Aug. 11, followed...

Table tennis was just part of family life for Rachel Sung, who made her Olympic debut yesterday in the team competition in Paris—and became part of a viral storyline with US basketball greats. Her parents met playing for their colleges in Taiwan, and she grew...

With all the hubris of a startup founder, Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District, took to the stage in March to launch Ed the chatbot. He told parents and students it had “the potential to personalize the educational journey at a...

-Updated with a statement from a spokesperson for Sam Liccardo on Aug. 1, 2024 On a recent Wednesday afternoon, I was sitting inside Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Co., waiting for State Assemblymember Evan Low to appear, when I received a text informing me he...

A modern picture frame’s function is simply to provide a border for a painting or photograph—to be inconspicuous. In Holly Lane’s hands, however, frames play anything but second fiddle. “Holly Lane—Not Enough Time to Love the World,” a new exhibit at NUMU (New Museum Los...

When the Town of Los Gatos was established in 1887, visitors couldn’t find much beyond a post office, a schoolhouse, general stores and endless miles of orchards. North Santa Cruz Boulevard and Main Street certainly were not the bustling commercial hubs they are today. Since then,...

The selection of a Bay Area native as presidential nominee of one of the major parties bears watching here in the bear flag state. If successful, she would not only be America’s first female president and the first one of South Asian heritage—she would...

San Jose Earthquakes midfielder Niko Tsakiris, from Saratoga, was recently recruited to the national team to compete at the Concacaf U-20 Championships in Mexico, joining teammate Cruz Medina on the squad. Meanwhile the South Bay pro team’s keeper, Emi Ochoa, was called up to play...