Despite San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's claim his policy to arrest homeless people for refusing shelter is meant to connect them to treatment, there isn't a plan for how it's supposed to work.

A Mountain View man was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of burglarizing multiple homes, according to police.

A new wildfire was reported today at 3:44 p.m. in Santa Clara County. Guadalupe Fire has been burning on private land. At ...

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The Monterey County District Attorney's Office reports that an illegal food vendor network operating on the Central Coast has been traced back to Merced County.

Santa Clara County approved nearly $29 million for five affordable housing projects in San Jose, creating 612 units and ...

The Bay Area News Group clinched 21 of the state’s most prestigious journalism awards for work published in 2024, including ...

The county joins other San Francisco Bay Area jurisdictions in approving the "smoke-sniffing" devices to shore up the ...

Northern California’s Santa Clara County has approved $28.7 million in funding for affordable housing in San Jose, reports ...

Four out of five of California’s most-destructive wildfires, and nine of the 10 largest, have occurred since 2017.

The family of David Gutierrez – whose girlfriend held him as he lay bleeding to death near the movie theaters –  say they ...

Rats shutting down a grocery store are never a good thing — unless regulars from that market end up boosting businesses in ...