This strike is no longer about fair wages or working conditions. It’s about pay demands that would force route cuts, fare increases and layoffs.

That means the strike that has suspended bus and light train rides for 100,000 commuters since March 10 will continue.

The Valley Transportation Authority is hopeful its offer of more pay and improved benefits will end the regional transit strike.

Representatives from both sides met Monday, but neither side budged from bargaining positions for a new three-year contract that remained far apart, with no new conversations scheduled.

The lawsuit seeks to block the Trump Administration’s attempt to withhold federal funding if local sheriffs and police departments don't assist in enforcing federal immigration laws.

The City Council pledged an undetermined amount of new financial support for the Rapid Response Network, co-founded by the city in 2016 to track actions by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, providing on-the-spot counseling and legal assistance to undocumented immigrants.

The county Facilities and Fleet Department completed three solar arrays in 2024, part of a larger campaign to expand solar power capacity and battery storage at county facilities.

President Donald Trump today began sweeps to deport undocumented immigrants arrested on suspicion of various crimes, a move that is dividing California sheriffs.

While taking responsibility for managing hazardous and biological waste, county officials today said private contractors – not hospital employees – had been hired to handle hazardous and medical waste identified by the DA.

A Southern California man and woman are accused of using a trending international online scam called “Pig Butchering” to try to steal more than $500,000 from an elderly San Jose man.

The county appeared to have been caught by surprise when informed three weeks ago of the DA's dumpster discoveries, releasing a statement Friday that didn't deny the allegations and affirming its commitment "to prevent future occurrences."

Nine of the 16 races that will determine which party controls the House of Representatives are in California. No state takes longer to tally votes.

The county Registrar of Voters office reported 419,345 mail ballots counted as of Nov. 3

The more than 1 million registered voters in Santa Clara County are voting by mail at the pace of about 20,000 per day. The 26 voting centers open this weekend for in-person voting, with 13 days until the polls close.

The death this month of an immunocompromised adult at a local hospital “after experiencing West Nile virus symptoms” is the county's second reported human case of the potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus. The other patient is recovering at home.

Police reported that during violent incidents that began more than a year ago at his Morgan Hill home, Officer Timothy Hackney threw his girlfriend into a bedroom and would not let her leave, forcibly covered her mouth so she couldn’t scream and slapped a phone out of her hand so that she couldn’t call 911.