Sale prices in some counties in 2022 are increasing at half the rate of a year ago, and total home sales in the Bay Area in May were 11.5 percent lower than last year.

City officials in Los Altos have announced the appointment of Angela Averiett as police chief. “I am humbled to serve the Los Altos community as the police chief and eager to get to work,” Averiett said. “My commitment to safety, accountability, fairness, and equity will strive to ensure the well-being of all who live, work, and travel through Los Altos.”

Averiett has more than 25 years of experience in policing and law enforcement.

Residents don't need to relocate during the spraying, since the treatment poses minimal risk to people, pets, animals and the environment, according to Santa Clara County.

A bill negotiated by environmentalists, the plastics industry and lawmakers is keeping a California recycling measure off the ballot. After the bill sailed through the Assembly and the state Senate the next morning, the proponents withdrew the initiative just before the deadline.

Community engagement will include a series of public meetings hosted between July and September, which began with the first workshop today, July 6.

The last statewide eviction protections for low-income California tenants affected by COVID-19 ended July 1, but many still haven’t heard back about their rent relief applications.

Gov. Newsom and the Legislature cut a California cannabis tax, but not everyone is convinced it’s enough to stabilize the legal market. Social equity operators say the changes don’t do nearly enough to help them.

Gene Levoff,  senior director of corporate law at Apple until he was fired in late 2018, was charged in 2019 with using inside information about Apple’s financial results to trade stock before its public release. 

An elderly couple on North Capitol Avenue told officers that five to six men had entered their home, bound them with belts, brandished a handgun and violently assaulted them and stealng property and the family car.

Three of the teen suspects were on “active searchable probation” and one was wearing a court-ordered ankle monitor at the time of the arrests.

In addition to the Discovery Meadow at the San Jose Children’s Museum and Almaden Lake Park in San Jose, public fireworks displays are scheduled for sites in Cupertino, Gilroy, Milpitas, Mountain View, Morgan Hill and Santa Clara, according to county officials.

The upgrade will be a top-to-bottom, inside-and-outside revamp of the building that will include a new staircase on the south side of the tower, at 12 S. First St. next to East Santa Clara Street.

The 450 physicians represented by the Valley Physicians Group raised concerns about patient care and safety.

The amusement park owned by Cedar Fair LP could shut down as soon as six years from now — and no more than 11 years from now — under the terms of a real estate agreement filed Monday with federal regulators.

After weeks of talks, Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders announce a tax relief plan that includes refunds of as much as $1,050, part of a $300 billion budget deal announced Sunday night.

 a 2019 state law that requires student health care services clinics on California State University and University of California campuses to offer abortion by medication. It goes into effect in 2023 but does not include the state's community colleges.