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Santa Clara County will close its mass Covid-19 vaccination and testing sites by the end of the month as they are no longer essential to the county’s pandemic response, officials said Feb. 1.  While county health officials emphasized that the pandemic is not over and...

On an overcast spring day—20 years after planning began—a new prefabricated pedestrian, bicycle and ADA-compliant bridge was dedicated at Highway 9. It links Highway 9 to the Los Gatos Creek Trailhead, and is located beside an existing bridge. At this brief dedication were the visionaries who...

Warm sun beating down on clean sidewalks, the bustle of shoppers pushing in and out of doors,  and the muffled live music drifting from inside a restaurant create the lively scenes that typify downtown Los Gatos.  This historic walkable downtown sets Los Gatos apart from...

A California energy regulator has become so vexed with troubled power provider Pacific Gas & Electric following months of planned and unplanned outages that it’s started to crack down. In a Nov. 1 letter to Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Chair Bruce McPherson, California...

Workers at Santa Clara County health care and long-term care facilities, homeless shelters and prisons will no longer be required to get vaccinated against Covid-19 after the county’s health officer on Sept. 12 rescinded a health order mandating that they do so. Vaccination or frequent testing has been a requirement for workers in settings with […]

Local food delivery service expands Locale, a food delivery company with a focus on local restaurants and farms, announced that a pair of Los Angeles restaurants have joined its service. Locale is the brainchild of Los Gatos natives and recent college graduates Chris Clark and Jonathan...

This week, when the Town of Los Gatos appointed Jamie Field chief of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department, it represented a milestone. The community has never had a woman leading the force before. In an interview with the Los Gatan, Field said she was...

A Bay Area task force identified 53 human trafficking victims, including 11 children, and arrested 25 suspects during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The regional initiative included law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, social workers, advocates and analysts from 11 Northern California counties. The Santa Clara County...

Just a few hours after the Santa Clara County Fire Department made a routine presentation to Monte Sereno City Council about their operations last night, firefighters were dispatched to a house fire in that city—on the 17000 block of Rose Court—that would ultimately claim...

Los Gatos elected officials gave their support to a pilot project that seeks to keep kids experiencing mental health crises from being taken into police custody unnecessarily. On Oct. 19, as part of its consent agenda, Council voted unanimously to contract with Silicon Valley Ambulance...