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On Saturday, April 2, the Town of Los Gatos held a fire evacuation drill for residents in the College Hill neighborhood. The drill was conducted by the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department along with volunteers from the Community Emergency Response Team, Disaster Aid Response...

Town staff came into the May 20 Council meeting proposing nearly a million dollars in operations cuts, as local officials fear the Donald Trump Administration could cut key funding programs—and some revenue-generating ideas (such as pot dispensaries) weren’t approved in recent years. But even with...

Authorities have released the name of the man who was killed in a motorcycle crash last weekend while driving along Highway 1 north of Santa Cruz. Christian Keller, 62, of Los Gatos, was heading southbound (towards the city) around 2pm Saturday when, for reasons that...

As the news broke on June 24 that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, local healthcare activists and politicians reflected the general sentiment that reverberated across Santa Clara County: anger, sadness and shock. But in the midst of the emotional turmoil, local...

They may not have packed a room the way they did in pre-Covid-19 times—when around 1,000 people turned up for the community’s Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service—but the around 125-strong in-person crowd was augmented by additional attendees participating remotely.  Jeffrey Hall, the senior pastor at Los...

The Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District has agreed to pay a former student athlete $3.485 million for sexual abuse that she said she endured for more than three years, in a settlement announced this week. Beginning in 1999, the plaintiff in the case,...

Former Santa Cruz County Clerk Gail Pellerin appears poised to become the first woman from Santa Cruz County to hold a seat on the State Assembly, with early returns showing 67.4% of voters supporting her throughout the district. Early results as of 8pm Tuesday also...

Two developers trying to build a significant amount of housing in Los Gatos have fired back at the Town in court, accusing it of illegally blocking the development of homes—including affordable units. This comes after the Town took to Santa Clara County Superior Court seeking...

Sunday, July 27  At 7:06 pm, a penal code violation was reported at El Camino Hospital on Pollard Road. A doctor entered the patient’s room for examination and forcibly held her hands and kissed her on the face. A patient of the hospital reported the...

Mikaela Hall, an 18-year-old Leigh High School Senior who lives in San Jose, was so nervous their hands were shaking. This morning, the nonbinary student was supposed to be learning about America's governmental system in a course offered on the West Valley College campus. Instead, they...