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Agreement lets San Jose clean up Caltrans property

San Jose is cleaning up state-owned land in an attempt to keep freeway underpasses free of homeless encampments. San...

Downtown San Jose Planning Commission seat still vacant

Not long after Anthony Tordillos won the June special election for the District 3 San Jose City Council...

Santa Clara County provides free resources to veterans

With Veterans Day approaching, Santa Clara County is offering free health and social services to local vets this...

Santa Clara project would upend Asian American shopping center

The future of a Santa Clara shopping center that’s a mainstay of the city’s Asian American community may...

State bill could displace Sunnyvale mobile home residents

Sunnyvale resident Gail Rubino first moved into the El Dorado Mobile Home Park 15 years ago because it...

California’s Prop. 50 has a rocky road ahead

California has overwhelmingly approved Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to gerrymander congressional seats in favor of Democrats for the...

Latest Opinion

A crowd cheering at an election night watch party in San Jose, California

Bramson: Counting wins amid a crisis

November is National Homelessness Awareness Month — a time when we confront the uncomfortable truth that in the richest place on earth, too many people still live without a home. More than 770,000 Americans are unhoused nationwide, the highest number ever recorded. But here’s the part we often miss: homelessness is not inevitable. It’s not some unsolvable riddle written into our DNA as a society. It’s a reflection of choices — and the good news is, we’re making better ones here at home. Just last week, voters in Santa Clara County made history again by passing Measure A — a...

The Podlight

The cost of cutting SNAP: Families on the brink in Silicon Valley

With federal SNAP benefits stalling, food insecurity is rising sharply across Silicon Valley. In this episode, we sit down with Leslie Bacho, CEO of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, to talk about the growing demand for food assistance, the human toll of federal funding cuts and what can be done to ensure no one in our community goes hungry.