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Santa Clara adopts safety plan to reduce traffic fatalities

Santa Clara has joined a growing number of Bay Area cities pursuing policies aimed at eliminating traffic deaths....

San Jose mayor issues budget plan amid projected shortfall

As San Jose officials prepare a budget proposal that’s sure to involve significant cuts, Mayor Matt Mahan has...

Committee recommends closing fewer San Jose schools

A committee tasked with recommending campus closures in San Jose’s largest school district is suggesting fewer schools should...

San Jose homeless housing site worker arrested on drug charges

A caseworker at a housing site for formerly homeless people in San Jose has been arrested for possessing...

Valley Water workers want leaders to resign over ex-CEO’s contract

Santa Clara Valley Water is boiling. Dozens of water district employees showed up at Tuesday’s board of directors...

State grant opens door to housing for South Bay farmworkers

Farmworkers who have grappled to make ends meet while doing backbreaking labor to feed Bay Area communities will...

Latest Opinion

Cherry Avenue homeless encampment

Bramson: Stopping the fall before it begins

Every day, thousands of Americans lose their homes. But the moment we notice the crisis is almost never the moment it begins. We see the tent on the sidewalk. The car parked overnight on a quiet street. The person waiting outside a shelter door. By then, the fall has already happened. What we rarely see are the weeks and months leading up to homelessness — the quiet instability that slowly erodes someone’s ability to stay housed. The rent increase that doesn’t quite fit the paycheck anymore. The medical bill that drains the savings account. The car repair that means missing...

The Podlight

How San Jose is betting on big games

From the Super Bowl to future global sporting events, San Jose is positioning itself for an economic surge. Reporter Keith Menconi explores the strategy, the stakes and what success would really look like for the South Bay.