County officials said the higher taxes are needed to close a projected billion-dollar budget shortfall they say is the result of the federal government’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

While taking responsibility for managing hazardous and biological waste, county officials today said private contractors – not hospital employees – had been hired to handle hazardous and medical waste identified by the DA.

In addition to outright winners in local races in the March primary, Matt Mahan, David Cohen and Otto Lee, another 10 local politicians emerged from the early ballot counts as shoo-ins for November, because they are already comfortably separated from their opponents.

The Office of Correction and Law Enforcement looked at the treatment of inmate Andrew Hogan in August 2018, who was paid a $10 million settlement for injuries he received in a county jail transport van.

The supervisors unanimously approved the purchase of four properties, creating 324 affordable housing units: two in San Jose, one in Morgan Hill and one in Santa Clara.

In calling for a better coordinated effort to respond to a crisis in mental health services, supervisors voted unanimously to ask county staff to begin 'systemwide planning' to address mental health issues and shortages in the mental health care workforce.

The supervisor shared her ambition to become San Jose’s next mayor at a private luncheon of Asian-American and Pacific Islander elected officials.

Santa Clara County leaders want eligible youth to get vaccinated, and they’re pulling out all the stops to make sure it happens. 

Prosecutors say Alena Jenkins physically attacked two fast-food employees while calling them “stupid” and “f*cking Mexicans.”

To date, no one on the San Jose City Council or Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors have been inoculated against the virus.

Last week, Santa Clara County Republican leader Phil Reynolds praised the siege and urged people to “take arms.”

The Registered Nurses Professional Association says the county is falling short in its response to the ongoing surge in Covid-19.

The former Sunnyvale mayor, U.S. Navy Bronze Star recipient and intellectual property attorney starts his newest gig in a few short weeks.

The former Sunnyvale mayor has had a commanding lead over Assemblymember Kansen Chu since the first returns came in Tuesday night.

The complaint accuses the lawmaker of using his former state assembly campaign account to fund his bid for county supervisor.

While politicians still dither over whether or not to mandate masks, it’s time to put factually based statistics and science above politics.