San Jose CA

For over a year, cameras deployed across Santa Cruz County have scanned thousands of license plates. According to the city council, eight devices called Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR) were added to the streets of Santa Cruz, providing police with the service of a 24-hour watchdog. Recent claims ICE has...

A long-planned water storage project in Northern California has reached a major federal milestone. The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved the Record of Decision for the Sites Reservoir Project, clearing the way for the project to move forward after decades of study and debate. The decision authorizes the...

California house hunters should have an easier time detecting when homes look far better in real estate photos than they do in real life, thanks to a new law.

Jurors in Redwood City are set to decide whether convicted kidnapper Cameron Hooker should be legally branded a sexually violent predator, a label that could keep him locked in state custody indefinitely instead of giving him any shot at parole. The San Mateo County Superior Court trial is scheduled to...

A road to some of the Bay Area’s most expensive real estate will flood when the seas rise. When the county said it might not fix it, homeowners threatened “billions in liability.”

On January 7, while driving in Minneapolis in her car on a snowy residential street, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent for refusing to move her car to allow law enforcement to pass. The event has since sparked controversy nationwide, with protests...

(KRON) — A pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run crash on the Embarcadero Road offramp of Highway 101 in Palo Alto Sunday, the California Highway Patrol told KRON4 News. The crash happened around 5:48 a.m. CHP officers, firefighters, paramedics and the Palo Alto Police Department responded to the crash. The victim...

The Greatest Show on Dirt will tackle a trio of California tracks in September including a new facility. The 2026 western swing for the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series is set. After a weekend in Kansas that features trips to Belleville High Banks (Sept. 11) and...

Suzanne Potter, producer/reporter, California News Service, a bureau of Public News Service. Experts in California consumer law are warning car buyers about “yo-yo” scams, in which people take the car home but are called back to the lot a few days later to sign new financing paperwork, often at a higher rate.

PINION HILLS, CA. (Pain In The Pass) >> At least one person was killed in a 3-vehicle crash that blocked Highway 138 for several hours Friday night. The collision was reported shortly before 8:30pm on January 23, 2026, on Hwy 138 near Mountain Road, just in front of Chevron gas station.