The contests for mayor of San Jose, Santa Clara County sheriff, all four of the contested San Jose City Council races and the one contested county supervisor race will have runoff elections in November with the top two finishers.

In San José, despite a hotly contested mayoral contest, just 17 percent of the more than a half-million eligible voters had returned ballots one day before the election.

Awards from the Federal Railroad Administration will be used for improvements along Monterey Road and Bascom Avenue.

After a weekend of lobbying, jockeying and speculating, then a flurry of parliamentary maneuvers and a six-hour closed-door caucus meeting on Tuesday, Rivas’ campaign for speaker ended abruptly. California Assembly Democrats decided to keep their current leader, Speaker Anthony Rendon

Former Sheriff Robert Earl Winter drew on his family history for his novel set in the Civil War.

The first count of unsheltered people in three years showed that the overall number of homeless individuals had increased by 3% in Santa Clara County (to 10,028) and increased by 11% (to 6,739) in the city limits of San José.

The California High-Speed Rail board approved a controversial alignment for a portion of the Merced to San Jose route.

Santa Clara County will receive $16.7 million to buy and convert the Crestview Hotel in Mountain View into 48 housing units for chronically homeless residents, homeless youth and young people at risk of becoming homeless. The county has already approved spending roughly $23 million on the project in addition to the state funding, which means each apartment unit will cost approximately $827,000. 

Suwanna Kerdkaew, formerly the department's deputy chief of administration, replaces former chief Tony Bowden, who retired after being on injury leave.

While the state and Santa Clara County lifted indoor mask requirements in mid-February and early March, San Jose had continued to require them in public places like grocery stores and restaurants.

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.

Sheriff Laurie Smith's election in 1998 as California’s first female sheriff signaled the end of the good old boys’ network, at least as appearances go.

Total employment in the region is up nearly 171,000 since April 2020.

Smith, who started with the Sheriff's Office in 1973 and has been sheriff since 1998, blasted attacks against her tenure as politically motivated.

Santa Clara County's average today, $5.48 for a gallon of regular gas, was in the middle range of Bay Area counties.

The county's seven-day average of new Covid cases has held below 550 for six consecutive days.