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A preliminary 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck near Milpitas on Thursday night, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake, which hit at 10:25 p.m., was centered about 6.6 miles east-northeast of Milpitas and about 10.9 miles north-northeast of San Jose. Further information was not immediately available. This is a...

New family housing is coming to Milpitas. Toll Brothers, a luxury home construction company, is building 43 townhomes and 13 ADUs — also known as in-law units or backyard homes — on a a 2.3-acre site at Tarob Court, about a mile and a half away from the Great Mall. The development will consist of eight multi-family buildings roughly 39 feet tall, and include 104 parking spaces.

One of the first times San Jose resident Raquel Green met her husband, Carlyle, he was lying on his side at a festival, smoking a cigarette and trying to act cool. She was 19 and not easily impressed, but when he dropped the cigarette accidentally and got embarrassed, they both burst out laughing. Married for... The post Santa Clara County will offer short-term relief to family caregivers appeared first on San José Spotlight.

(KRON) — Santa Clara County seizes more guns from dangerous, disturbed, and suicidal people than anywhere else in California, according to a new State Attorney General's report. “The county has become the vanguard in using Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVRO) — which allows law enforcement to temporarily take away weapons from people who a court agrees are […]

In March of last year, California Governor Gavin Newsom offered 1,200 tiny homes to temporarily accommodate homeless individuals, particularly those who already live in encampments, in four main regions across the Golden State. However, the concept behind the dwellings goes far beyond simply providing a place to sleep. According to the governor’s plan, the dwellings will serve as a tiny home community, complete with kitchens, dining and living rooms, common areas, and counseling cabins, to assist persons experiencing homelessness in finding stability. Yet, a year after the governor’s declaration, the tiny homes have not housed a single tenant, and the state and localities have only acquired roughly 150 of them. The stalemate is due to changing state parameters, as well as other bureaucratic delays. The plan, part of a $1 billion initiative, is intended to cover the costs of contracting, delivering, and installing tiny homes from six state-approved vendors, as well as provide much-needed relief for the state’s homelessness crisis, as California has the highest percentage of homeless people living without shelter in the country, according to a 2023 federal report. According to the state, the California National Guard was supposed to help prepare and deliver the homes “free of charge and ready for occupancy,” but that changed last winter, when the state stated it would delegate responsibility for purchasing and placing homes to each city and county. Some districts are now unable to fund all of the promised homes, while others are bogged down in protracted board decisions about where to locate them—all while the homeless remain unhoused.

A Bay Area city was named the best city to raise a family in the US for the third year in a row, and it's also the happiest city in the US.

San Jose ranks as one of the top cities in the country to raise a family, but lack of affordability is also pushing some people out the region. WalletHub ranked San Jose seventh as the best place to raise a family out of 182 U.S. cities surveyed. Four other California cities made the top 10, with Fremont ranking No. 1, Irvine at No. 3, San Diego at No. 8 and Huntington Beach at No. 10.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, the old saying goes. And on Friday, the first scoop of dirt was taken out of the ground in what has been a decades-long journey of planning and fundraising to run six new miles of BART track through the South Bay.

San Jose Taco Bell workers are striking Wednesday after staff complained that kitchen temperatures have risen to nearly 90 degrees due to the company not repairing the store's air conditioner.

In a year with bleak financial projections, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors this week gave their stamp of approval on the $12.5 billion budget, closing the previously projected $250 million deficit. The 2024-25 fiscal year budget faced challenges from the start as labor costs continued to outpace revenues....

SANTA CLARA COUNTY — California's recent wet winters brought much relief to the state, but it has now contributed to dangerous fire conditions. The past couple of years brought rare, back-to-back wet winters, creating "a very heavy grass crop," according to Santa Clara County Fire Battalion Chief Bill Murphy. And with a one-day heat wave hitting parts of the Bay Area Tuesday, Murphy warned the conditions present higher-than-normal fire dangers."This grass only takes about an hour during the hot period of the day to where it's ready to burn. Even if it's foggy overnight, if we have a 90-degree temperature...

Silicon Valley labor leader Cindy Chavez is still looking to leave the Bay Area — this time, she’s eyeing a role in New Mexico. Chavez is one of three finalists for Bernalillo County manager, a top administrative role that oversees its management and operations. A county commission of elected officials whittled their list of finalists... The post Santa Clara County supervisor could net top job in New Mexico county appeared first on San José Spotlight.

Despite a tough fiscal year, the San Jose City Council unanimously passed a multi-billion dollar budget. Mayor Matt Mahan is calling it one of the most important votes of the year.

First Lady Jill Biden is set to arrive Thursday evening in the Bay Area to attend a campaign fundraiser, according to the White House. Biden is expected to fly in from a political event in Minnesota and will arrive at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View. On Friday at 12:45 p.m., she will visit and talk at a political finance event in Los Gatos before going to Reno, Nevada, for another event later in the day, according to the White House. It is the second time that the first lady has been in the Bay Area in as many months after she came to the region last month also for fundraisers. Her husband, President Joe Biden, was also in the Bay Area that week in May for campaign events. 

In an effort to tackle California’s affordable housing crisis, San Jose will allow property owners to sell ADUs on their property. San Jose becomes the first city in the state to move forward with the effort after the Legislature passed AB-1033 last year. “They've become an incredibly popular option,”...

Some dog owners in San Jose are angry at the city for what they say was the reckless spraying of a pesticide. People in the city's Alviso district claim it made pets sick and put kids at risk. Now they want an explanation and some changes. Lina Burciaga, like many...