Customers venturing out to reopened businesses should be prepared to make their own safety assessments, health officials say.

MedMen will go down in the annals as a symbol of the early days of the legal-weed industry: a meteoric rise and a spectacular crash.

The veteran water official will make $326,352 a year to oversee a district tasked with providing water and flood protection to the South Bay.

Hotels, restaurants, gyms and retail are among the largest employers to lay people off in the South Bay, according to the latest figures from EDD.

The financial disclosures come three months after the county declared a state of emergency, which expanded its authority to fight the crisis.

An extended repayment plan is also expected to be developed after the county was told to look at the city of San Jose as an example.

Bob Kieve, who died Sunday at the age of 98, believed that signs were critical to economic prosperity, and he set out to change the rules.

The next meeting of the Greater Downtown San Jose Economic Recovery Task Force takes place from 1 to 2:30pm on Wednesday.

There’s a frankness that was fairly unusual even at in-person trade shows that are now canceled or delayed as we all shelter in place.

For a scheme with such potentially devastating consequences on schools and local governments, it’s garnered surprisingly little attention.

From Jan. 1 to May 8, at least 19 people died from fentanyl in this county. During the same period in 2019, seven died from the drug.

Any county resident who wants to get tested for the coronavirus can now sign up online at projectbaseline.com or by calling 2-1-1. 

Two county supervisors want a COVID cost tracker so the public can see precisely what’s being invested to pull through this crisis.

The pandemic has led to a massive reduction in pollution, but it could come back with a vengeance once commuters hit the road again.

The Community Child Care Council of Santa Clara County has until June 30 to hand off $40-million-a-year in government contracts.

The nonprofit gallery, which set so many on a creative course in life, faces a roadblock on its own path—and it couldn’t come at a worse time.