California ended its voluntary statewide target, triggering concerns from experts that many water supplies remain depleted. In Santa Clara County, Valley Water is to reveal its local water outlook in mid-April.

To combat the presence of fentanyl in the correctional facility, Jonsen said he has taken “extraordinary” measures, including conducting multiple facility searches, more frequent welfare checks and numerous K-9 searches.  

The college was on lockdown for more than two hours, after the security sent out alerts shortly after 11am that an armed intruder with a rifle was seen at the Saratoga campus.

The atmospheric river will be most severe on Friday, with a flood watch already in effect today through Sunday, a wind advisory today and tomorrow for the entire Bay Area and Gov. Gavin Newsom declaring a state of emergency for Santa Clara and 20 other counties.

The Weed Abatement Program requires property owners to remove excess vegetation and combustible debris. Inspections began this month in San José, Santa Clara and Campbell.

One of the world’s richest regions has some of its starkest divides, with its top 10% of households holding two-thirds of its wealth, according to a new study of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.

Before joining the county, Tony LoPresti practiced environmental, labor, and employment law at Altshuler Berzon LLP, a public interest firm based in San Francisco, and served as a law clerk in two U.S. Courts of Appeal.

Without additional revenue from fares, new taxes or some other source, BART is on track to run out of pandemic-era emergency relief funding by mid-2025.

Biden has previously approved Newsom’s disaster declaration request, including public and individual support for Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties.

Three reporting stations in the greater Bay Area saw records: Oakland (18.33 inches); San Francisco International Airport (15.28 inches); and Stockton (10.79 inches).

Page Mill Road will be closed from 8am-5pm today and Friday, while crews repair a sinkhole along a stretch of the road between Paseo del Roble Drive near Moon Lane and Arastradero Road in Los Altos Hills. State Route 92 was closed early this morning in both directions along a 4-mile stretch between Skyline Boulevard and west to Pilarcitos Creek Road.

The countywide benefit was created in response to a 2022 proposal calling for the formation of a program to support employees at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center who had been on the frontlines of the Covid pandemic.

John Arthur Getreu, 78, admitted to the 1973 murder of Lesley Perlov, 16 months after he was convicted in the 1974 killing of another woman in what proxecutors called The Stanford Murders.

Another weather system is projected to bring additional rain and periods of stronger winds this weekend and next week.

The complaint is the second lawsuit to declare that project in northern San Benito County would harm cultural resources and threaten the environment.

The Asian/Pacific Islander Community Health Worker pilot program will work with local nonprofits and hire health workers to care for seven specific Asian communities in the county.