Politics

As the local public relations professional behind the 247-megawatt Panoche Valley solar project and the No on Measure J campaign, which failed to stop a citizen-led effort to ban fracking in San Benito County in 2014, Kristina Chavez Wyatt is no stranger to controversy.

The Gilroy Chamber of Commerce and the Santa Clara Valley Water

In the wake of half a decade of drought and torrential rains last winter, the Santa Clara Valley Water District is proposing an $800 million dam that will make the Pacheco Reservoir 25 times bigger and ease droughts and floods, the district says.

Gilroy city planners are considering the possibility of using

Barack Obama essentially came out of nowhere, beat the

City officials have been down this road before. Residents who

The redrawing of district boundary lines for the Santa Clara

Enthusiasm was high at Gilroy City Council Monday, as a packed chambers watched four new city council members and a mayor get sworn in after a record-breaking election on Nov. 8.

In Santa Clara County Supervisor District 1, San Jose Councilmember Sylvia Arenas led on Election Day, and never looked back. On the eighth day of ballot counting, Arenas cemented her victory, roaring to a more than 9,000-vote lead over former council member Johnny Khamis, with...