Central Fire Protection District Expands Service Area and Budget to Cover More Local Communities
The Santa Clara County Central Fire Protection District, also known as the Santa Clara County Fire Department, is a special district. It provides firefighting and emergency medical services in much of unincorporated Santa Clara County. Its service area includes Cupertino, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, parts of Saratoga,...
Owner of blighted San Jose building faces fines if repairs don’t occur
SAN JOSE — A real estate firm that’s active in San Jose faces rising fines on one of its downtown buildings if the company fails to address blighted conditions that include a caved-in roof. The building at 98 East San Salvador St. is owned by an affiliate controlled...
Santa Clara County may shake up volunteer disaster aid efforts
Santa Clara County wants to make changes to the region’s disaster aid pipeline — raising alarms for the nonprofit that has run it for decades. Emergency resource leaders are scratching their heads at the county’s efforts to restructure the region’s state-recognized Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster. The...
‘People Behaving Badly’ returns to Bay Area TV with new episodes and familiar host
KRON4 is relaunching its longtime segment “People Behaving Badly,” bringing back reporter Stanley Roberts six years after he left the Bay Area.
JCPenney to close another Bay Area store
(KRON) — The San Francisco Bay Area will soon lose another JCPenney store. The company confirmed to KRON4 that its retail location at the Stoneridge Shopping Center in Pleasanton will close its doors in February 2026. The Pleasanton department store’s final day of business will be on February 22, 2026. In a...
CHP shuts down garbage hauler with 4 bad brakes, 3 flat tires, and 2...
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) put the brakes on a commercial vehicle driver for operating with a long list of serious equipment violations. On December 5, 2025, CHP troopers with the Nimitz Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Facility located in Fremont, California, reported taking a garbage hauler off the road...
Woman struck, killed on San Jose 101 early Friday
(KRON) — A woman was fatally struck by a car as she attempted to walk across Highway 101 in San Jose early Friday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol. CHP responded at 1:16 a.m. to northbound 101 north of San Antonio Street on the report of a vehicle crash. Officers located the pedestrian, who […]
Exclusive: A look inside the Bay Area’s newest Japanese supermarket
(KRON) — When Osaka Marketplace opened its first location in Fremont in 2021, there were questions about how well the community would receive the East Bay’s first Japanese supermarket. Four years later, Osaka Marketplace has become known in the Bay Area and satisfied the region’s appetite for a grocery store...
Mom, daughter identified as victims in San Jose Highway 87 crash
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Guitar Wars opens new shop that brings rare retail to downtown San Jose
SAN JOSE — Guitar Wars opened a new store in downtown San Jose’s SoFA district with hopes of bringing sales and more to an urban core that for decades has suffered from a dwindling retail base. “There is a great music scene here in downtown San Jose,” said...

















