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Santa Clara County supervisors voted unanimously Thursday to ask voters to approve new sales taxes that will place half the county in the double-digits. The sales tax increase will be on the Nov. 4 ballot. Thursday was the last day for items to be added...

The frequent flow of planes dropping low over Central Coast shrubbery toward a Monterey Regional Airport runway, over brown mid-rise office-outpost rectangles that house the Pacific Cancer Care, recalls the constant stream of Silicon Valley air traffic descending into the San Jose Mineta International...

On Monday, the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District announced a new schedule and format for its Board of Trustees meetings, beginning this year. Regularly scheduled meetings will now take place on Thursdays, about every three weeks. And the Closed Session portion will be moved from...

An analysis by The Brattle Group found that Sunrun’s fleet of home batteries across California was the largest contributor to a historic distributed power plant dispatch event that delivered an average of 535 megawatts to the grid—enough to power more than half of the...

Yesterday, a little before noon, Santa Clara County Fire Department firefighters from its Saratoga station responded to a vehicle fire along Fruitvale Avenue, in Saratoga. "Firefighters arrived as West Valley Community Police were working to extinguish the flames with three fire extinguishers they had available,"...

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...

After more than a month of delays, the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department this week set a new date for the release of public records about its Flock Safety Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) cameras. The Los Gatan filed an initial request to the agency...

Once finals end and college students are freed from attending class and studying, often, another challenge awaits: the summer job. Here’s how a few local postsecondary pupils are making it work.  Starting a business from scratch is never easy. Getting started, spreading the word and...

The Santa Clara County Planning Collaborative recently launched online galleries of pre-approved design plans for accessory dwelling units.

County Executive James Williams confirmed that the Valley Healthcare system is projecting a larger deficit for 2026-27 as cuts take hold.