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Updated: Thursday, Feb. 6 at 11:14am Just after 7am Monday, the California Highway Patrol posted on Twitter about a traffic operation on Highway 17, north of Alma Bridge Road. "A truck hauling trash caught fire," a spokesperson for the agency's San Jose station wrote. "Currently, there...

The Los Gatos lobbying firm that proudly touts its “environmental, social, and governance” credentials on its website—that’s Canyon Snow, which recently announced it was adding a former San Jose City Council member to its roster—says it’s not worried about the scorched-earth anti-woke policies President...

By now, you’ve likely seen or heard the saying, “You can’t please everyone: you are not pizza.”  Fortunately, decent pizza is not hard to find in our town.  Whether you want a basic slice of mushroom or cheese pizza from Pizza My Heart, or you want...

crestled in a microcosm to Los Gatos known as Redwood Estates, you find a charming little town with a post office, a bodega, and what the area has known for the last 30 years as Nonno’s. Whether it was with the intention of escaping the...

In case you didn’t know, 1887 was the year Los Gatos was established upon a vote of 126-44. Since then, this community has been no stranger to change. Back in the day, the local economy thrived thanks to milling, logging and orchard cultivation—and now...

On the second day of the Moss Landing battery fire to the south—as mask-clad shoppers along North Santa Cruz Avenue took in an especially colorful, if hazy, evening display—Raschel Archambeault, the assistant manager of East Kennedy, helped load about $60,000 in merchandise into my...

After serving half of his four-year term on the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District’s school board, trustee and former Los Gatos High science teacher Alex Shultz announced his resignation from the position, effective Jan. 24, at the board’s first meeting of the year. During...

By now, people across the country—and beyond America’s borders—have seen visuals of the Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires in Southern California from the safety of their homes, on TV and via the internet.  As the world watches, local firefighters have been in the thick of...

The Los Gatos woman who is accused of holding alcohol-fueled parties for teens remained in jail over the holidays, as a variety of cases against her go unresolved. And in recent filings in the divorce case brought by her husband, Robert Amaral, the former chief...

The Lexington House is changing hands. Co-founder Stephen Shelton told the Los Gatan he’s already in escrow, and is ecstatic that the new owner plans to retain the name, the menu and its star chef, Ethan Carreon. “It’s a great scenario,” Shelton said. Marco Spagnuolo, who is...