All consumer fireworks — including those labeled "Safe and Sane" — are dangerous and illegal to use, possess, or sell in almost all of Santa Clara County. The lone exception is the City of Gilroy.

The high court ruling allows states to ban transgender student athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s teams, but doesn’t require it – which means that California and 22 other states can keep their current policies.

There are two options to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in San Jose on May 3: a parade and community festival in East San Jose beginning at 10am and a downtown Cinco de Mayo festival at Plaza de Cesar Chavez beginning at 11 am.

Shannon and Scott Guggenheim, who previously operated Saratoga’s Retrodome Theater, transformed the former Camera 3 Cinemas at Second and San Carlos streets in San Jose into a home for musicals and live events in 2017.

City officials said they are coordinating with the mayor of Okayama, Japan, and a foundry has been identified to recreate the 5-foot bronze statue, featuring Japanese folklore hero Momotaro, a dog, a monkey and a pheasant.

A hooded stranger smashed the vestibule door of San Jose's historic Portuguese church in a shocking attack during Christmas Eve services. A suspect was identified as the attacker at the church after he was arrested for a Dec. 27 attack that nearly killed a homeless man.

The escalating ICE enforcement, and a change in policy that permits immigration enforcement at areas such as churches and schools that were previously off limits, has created a chilling effect on some Latino community activities.

The immersive holiday event features dazzling light displays throughout the South Santa Clara County horticultural theme park, including a 100-foot North Pole Light Tunnel with synchronized music.

On Dec. 4, the City of San Jose will unveil a commemorative bronze plaque at City Hall above the footprint of a house which once stood on South Fifth Street where band members played their very first notes as the Grateful Dead.

The last Gilroy Garlic Festival in 2019 ended in a stunning and violent tragedy, when a lone teenaged gunman killed three people, and injured 17 others at Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy.

Calls to LGBTQ crisis lines spiked after President Donald Trump’s election. His policies target health care for young transgender people, creating uncertainty for a vulnerable community. A spate of recent policy decisions by the Trump administration targeting transgender youth has led to an escalating mental health crisis among an already vulnerable population, experts and advocates say.

With federal legalization now (perhaps) a far-off pipe dream as Republicans descend into the White House and Congress to assume full control of the government, one of the chief hopes for California’s badly ailing pot industry has (perhaps) been dashed. While it wouldn’t solve every problem, by a long shot, federal legalization would at least open up new markets for cannabis companies that are prepared to import and export their products, and at least theoretically give a big boost to smaller firms, too, including local dispensaries. With an unstable federal government, it’s impossible to know for sure whether legalization might happen despite general GOP opposition.

Kihn toured the world and won a number of awards for his hit songs “Jeopardy,” “The Breakup Song,” “Remember” and “Lucky,” and was well known to Bay Area audiences as the morning radio host for KFOX for 17 years.

A strong advocate for music, the arts and education, Holden was very involved with a variety of community organizations.

Paul Thomas Anderson directs movie scenes in  'BC Project' in the historic downtown setting.

Yosimar Reyes was named Santa Clara County's eighth poet laureate, and will serve for two years, through 2025.