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Dr. Sara Cody has announced her retirement from her position as Santa Clara County’s health officer. She served the County for more than 25 years (12 of those in this current role, and also as director of the County’s health department since 2015). Cody rose to...

On Thursday, the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District announced 41 high school seniors had been recognized as National Merit Finalists, an honor awarded to less than 1% of students nationwide who demonstrate exceptional academic ability, leadership and extracurricular involvement. One particularly notable finalist is...

As of today, the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District has a new trustee. Shawn Mortensen was described by a District spokesperson as "a dedicated Los Gatos High School parent" who is currently serving as the president of the school’s Home & School Club. He...

In these hyper-partisan times, Democrats and Republicans can’t seem to agree on much. That includes the members of the California Legislature. Of the 2,278 bills lawmakers submitted by the deadline last week, only 11 had Republicans and Democrats as joint lead authors, according to a...

The Los Gatos-Saratoga Girls Softball Association, a volunteer-based nonprofit softball league, held its opening day on Saturday. The season, which goes until October, features participants from across the wider Los Gatos community. SEASON BEGINS - Another year of hits, catches, bunts, wins, losses and ties has...

The Santa Clara County District Attorney has declined to formally charge Stanford University student journalist Dilan Gohill for covering on a pro-Palestinian protest last year, after he faced allegations of committing multiple felonies. The student, who was reporting for the Stanford Daily, a student-run newspaper,...

The day after he received word he’d won another valuable grant from the US Navy to help America up its undersea exploration game—and a few days after meeting with Meta officials in London about their plan to lay $10 billion worth of fiber optic...

The Highway 17 trek back and forth “over the hill” between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz—with its rush-hour chaos and treacherous turns on rainy days—is a route many are all too familiar with. At the summit lies a reddish structure that has been seen by...

Los Gatos Council has approved a 155-unit multi-family residential development for the site of the Los Gatos Lodge hotel tonight at their regularly-scheduled meeting. After an official for San Ramon-based SummerHill Homes, LLC boasted it had received unanimous support for the project at Planning Commission,...

Covid-19 halted life-as-usual for the world and left a lot of failed companies in its wake. Some faltered with the introduction of regulations that allowed only “essential” businesses to remain open; for others it was not securing grant funding. In the business community, there...