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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...

UPDATE: San Jose restricts use of license plate readers

San Jose is tightening controls over its automated license plate reader program, as the city faces mounting public...

Palo Alto approves ‘mission critical’ objectives for coming year

Palo Alto leaders set themselves up for a busy year on Monday when they approved a list of...

Mountain View joins lawsuit over federal grant restrictions

Along with several other jurisdictions across the state, Mountain View has joined a lawsuit against the federal government...

San Jose skips housing offers for some homeless residents

In San Jose, how you get treated as a homeless person depends on where you end up on...

Santa Clara County studies impact of possible rural hospital closure

Santa Clara County is forecasting additional stress on its public health care system — the second largest in the...

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.