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Multiple Council members raised concerns at their regularly-scheduled Feb. 20 meeting that the sprawling motion presented by the Vice Mayor at the prior meeting to protect vast swaths of the community from small multifamily housing was sent off to the Department of Housing and...

In the months Roy Windom IV spent living in the same Boulder Creek house as Robert Brainard III, the man who was killed when a tree fell on his bedroom Feb. 4, they never really made a big deal about their names including Roman...

Wayne Heimsoth peered in the window of the terracotta roofed former home of the Los Gatos Art Museum on the corner of Tait Avenue and West Main Street. In the midmorning sun last Thursday, he remarked on what appeared to be new carpet. The 77-year-old...

Feb. 4 A caller said someone stole his gym bag, sunglasses and other miscellaneous items from his unlocked vehicle along Fairview Avenue around 12:30am. A 37-year-old man was arrested for unlawful possession of paraphernalia and violating the terms of his Post Release Community Supervision order. LGMSPD received...

California’s Department of Housing and Community Development seemed on the verge of approving Los Gatos’ residential plan, its Housing Element (now more than a year overdue), when the backpedaling began. On Feb. 6, Council voted to introduce a new measure to defend single-family and moderate-density...

Jan. 21 • A woman was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and resisting an officer on University Avenue and Boyer Lane at 1:02am. • A man was arrested for being in possession of unlawful paraphernalia on the 600 block of N. Santa Cruz...

Kevin Buchanan sat in his office overlooking the front lawn as the rain faded into blue sky just before noon on Friday. Last month, the 64-year-old Los Gatos High School principal broke the news to the school community that this year will be his final...

A 45-year-old man was killed when a tree fell on a home just north of Boulder Creek yesterday around 3:30pm. Ashley Keehn, of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, said Robert Brainard III was killed when a tree slammed into a home on the 14100...

No one was displaced when a fire tore through a garage on Stetson Road in Los Gatos on Jan. 23. According to Cal Fire, firefighters were dispatched around 2:40am to the fire. When Engine 1791 from Burrell Cal Fire Station 47 arrived, they found a fire...

The Town of Los Gatos’ former top engineer WooJae Kim is appealing an order to repay money for a town-issued laptop he reported stolen while in Hawaii. Kim left his post in Los Gatos in December 2022 and became Public Works Director/City Engineer in Los...