News August 27, 2020 Amid Worsening Pandemic and Massive Wildfires, Census Takers Start Making House Calls By Will Carruthers and Jennifer Wadsworth With little more than a month to go before the census deadline, county officials are making a final push to ensure a complete tally. Read More 8
News August 27, 2020 Ex-Cisco Employee Pleads Guilty to Damaging Company’s Network By Emanuel Lee Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh admitted to unlawfully accessing Cisco’s Amazon-hosted cloud two years ago. Read More 3
News August 27, 2020 Facebook Exec Security Team Escapes Prosecution in Gun Permit Scandal—So Far By Jennifer Wadsworth The alleged mastermind of an bribery plot managed to duck charges for now. As did many of his apparently perjurious colleagues. Read More 6
Opinion August 27, 2020 Letter to the Editor: If We Don’t Address Climate Change, These Fires Will Only Get Worse By Guest Columnist If we don’t address climate change head on, these apocalyptic fires burning up and down California will remain our reality. Read More 8
News August 26, 2020 Sharks Captain Logan Couture Claims He Was ‘Sucker Punched’ for Saying He’d Vote Republican By Emanuel Lee The comments sent the Twitterverse into a frenzy, prompting the Sharks to chime in and denounce physical attacks of any kind. Read More 14
Business August 26, 2020 South Bay Sees Bizarre Mini-Boom as Thousands of Fire Evacuees Pour into Downtown By Janice Bitters The fires burning in the mountains south and west of San Jose have pushed 77,000 people to flee from Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties. Read More 6
Opinion August 26, 2020 Op-Ed: Jacob Blake, Another Casualty of Deja Vu by Design By Sajid Khan Despite the movement in the streets, the uprisings at city halls, the chants of Black Lives Matter, we’re still here. Read More 6
News August 26, 2020 SCU Fires 25 Percent Contained By Jennifer Wadsworth Firefighters made significant progress against the SCU Complex in the past day, allowing Cal Fire to ease some evacuation orders. Read More 0
The Fly August 26, 2020 Tweetstorm Pushes SCU to Launch Independent Racial Profiling Investigation By The Fly Santa Clara University is on a crash course into the national spotlight this week as it launches an investigation into campus policing. Read More 26
News August 26, 2020 Bay Area Gets Devastating Welcome to Era of Megafires By Jennifer Wadsworth California has never seen anything like the lightning fires that struck amid a pandemic, rolling blackouts and a record heatwave. Read More 13
News August 25, 2020 Some Evacuation Orders Ease Up, But Officials Say California ‘Megafires’ Could Burn for Weeks By Jennifer Wadsworth The fires east of Santa Clara Valley have grown to more than 365,000 acres, making it the largest active fire in California. Read More 1
Deaths August 24, 2020 Recently Retired San Jose City Attorney Dies of Cancer By Silicon Valley Newsroom Mayor Sam Liccardo issued a statement Monday calling Rick Doyle, a lifelong civil servant, one of the city's “greatest champions.” Read More 3
News August 24, 2020 WATCH: Lightning Complex Updates From Cal Fire, San Jose By Silicon Valley Newsroom Cal Fire and San Jose city officials broadcast updates about the Bay Area lightning fires in a series of video broadcasts. Read More 0
News August 24, 2020 Authorities Warn Looters to Stay Away From Fire Evacuation Zones By Todd Guild In addition to cracking down on looting, officials said, they’re also trying to ensure that everyone complies with stay-away orders. Read More 3
News August 24, 2020 Lightning Mostly Spares South Bay; Red Flag Warning Lifted By Jennifer Wadsworth Fires raging all around the South Bay continue to close in, prompting new evacuation orders in the Tri-Valley, Morgan Hill and Los Gatos. Read More 0
News August 24, 2020 SJ Mayor Tells Police to Hasten Release of Protest Footage By Grace Hase Even if Mayor Sam Liccardo gets his way, the videos would only see the light of day by fall—up to five months after the demonstrations. Read More 5