The Legislature passes a placeholder state budget, but must still negotiate with Gov. Newsom on the final deal. How the state spends taxpayer money is largely being decided out of public view.

Aiming to store more water and protect the public, legislators are negotiating with the governor to restore $50 million to help repair 42 aging dams throughout the state, including six in Santa Clara County.

Police identified the suspect as Alejandro Lopez Nunez, 38, of Santa Clara, a behavioral therapist with Trumpet Behavioral Health and also a part-time Instructional Aide at Forest Hill Elementary School at the time of the June 7 incident.

On June 10, 2001, Maria Hsiao was celebrating her 21st birthday with family and friends when she was shot in the head while standing in a crowd outside the Q Cafe, a former pool hall on Alma Street that is now Patagonia Palo Alto.

The preservation action fulfills a long-term vision to protect agriculture and build climate resiliency on the coast.

Measure A will add a $79 tax per parcel on top of renewing an existing $49 tax to fund educational programs at Los Gatos High School and Saratoga High School.

Earlier this month, a lawyer for Chavez threatened to sue her San Diego counterparts for the way she claimed she was treated as an applicant for the $400,000 post.

Cooling centers will be open at the Camden Community Center (3369 Union Ave.). Emma Prusch Farm Park (647 S. King Road) and Roosevelt Community Center (901 E. Santa Clara St.).

The governor has been critical of local homelessness efforts and his newly revised 2024-25 budget not only pulls back an extra $260 million that local officials had counted on, but removes all of the homeless funding.

The growing strike may complicate matters for the more than 169,000 undergraduate students at six campuses as they wrap up instruction and take final exams.

Police arrested Andrew Perez as the man who allegedly attacked the victim at the Children's Discovery Museum Station about 1:15pm, March 29.

Community solar projects can give renters and low-income homeowners a chance to go solar, but the PUC’s action is unlikely to give them the option.

A proposal to fix California’s insurance crisis would require the insurance department to process requests from insurers more quickly. But that could end with a lot of rate increases for consumers.

GOP leaders on Wednesday asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to disclose documents detailing a decision by the Biden administration to award billions of dollars to the California high-speed rail project.

May 23 was the deadline to turn in 42,802 valid signatures of voters in the district, which includes parts of Alameda and Santa Clara counties.

One year after Gov. Newsom promised 1,200 tiny homes to shelter residents in four cities, including San Jose, only 150 have been purchased and none are in place.