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The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is requesting public feedback on its 2021 Transit Service Plan, which proposes various scenarios for service changes and reductions due to the impact of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Inmate Daniel Lopez Zavala, who escaped from the San Benito County Jail on May 28, was arrested in San Jose May 29 night following a regional manhunt that lasted nearly two days, authorities said.  The San Benito County Sheriff’s Office has also arrested three people...

Give blood In September, the American Red Cross stresses the continuing critical need for blood products to ensure patient care. Donors of all blood types are asked to give now to keep blood supply levels rising after a summer shortage. Type O blood donors and...

Santa Clara County’s elected sheriff and the department’s second-in-command invoked their right against self-incrimination instead of answering questions from prosecutors before a criminal grand jury earlier this month.

For the past few months, I’ve been part of the team at South Valley Civic Theatre getting ready to bring the classic play “On Golden Pond” to life on stage in Morgan Hill. The play, written by Ernest Thompson, explores themes of aging, family...

The death of a woman last week at a Gilroy home is being investigated as suspicious, police said Aug. 15. The investigation began after the woman was found dead the evening of Aug. 6 at a home in the 7600 block of Rea Street, according...

Santa Clara County is now accepting applicants for the 2021 Advisory Redistricting Commission, an effort to redraw the county's five supervisorial district boundaries that occurs after every decennial census. Applications close at 9am on June 1, and 10 commissioners will be appointed next month to...

More than 900,000 households and businesses throughout California lost electricity during the latest atmospheric river storm that walloped the state, according to PG&E. As of the morning of Feb. 6, more than 64,000 PG&E customers in the Bay Area remained without power.  The storm that...

Starting on Jan. 1, employers will be required to inform employees of potential exposure to Covid-19 within a day of the exposure occurring under Assembly Bill 685.

A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the 2016 death of a Gilroy man whose body was found in a Fresno County canal. Vidal Zepeda, 39, was found dead on Feb. 22, 2016 in the California Aqueduct at West...