San Jose CA

Daniel Acosta still remembers one of the last things his grandmother told him before she died when she learned he wanted to become a police officer. Her advice followed Acosta through his 41 years in law enforcement and now as he prepares to retire this spring as chief of police of the Foothill–De Anza Police...

Some restaurants serve food, but a few special places create experiences that turn a simple meal into a destination worth traveling for. Buffets often get dismissed as quantity over quality, yet every so often one breaks the mold and becomes legendary among food lovers who crave variety, freshness, and value all in...

Fourteen members of a drug and gun trafficking organization were arrested on Wednesday when multi-agency law enforcement officers swooped on 17 locations, including Oregon. Oregon Pharmacist Allegedly Received Kickbacks for Filling Fake Prescriptions for Narcotics. Central to the investigation was a defendant who...

The profile page for a UCLA professor who appeared in the Epstein files has been removed from the school’s website amid backlash from the community. Mark Tramo is listed on Google as an associate adjunct professor of neurology at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and an associate adjunct professor of...

A start-up founder is organizing a Saturday “March for Billionaires” in San Francisco in protest of a proposed one-time wealth tax on the state’s ultra-wealthy . The march, set to kick off this afternoon at the San Francisco Civic Center, has attracted a small crowd already, though it has run into one problem: its...

This isn’t grocery shopping — it’s a weekly celebration with edible souvenirs. Every Sunday morning, California Avenue flips a switch. Coffee steams, grills hiss, and Palo Alto locals drift in like they’re late to a party they refuse to miss. The California Avenue Farmers’ Market doesn’t whisper; it calls out with...

California holds 346 documented ghost towns scattered across its deserts, mountains, and valleys—the third-highest concentration in the nation behind Texas. You’ll find the densest clustering in Kern County, which contains 113 abandoned sites, mostly remnants of 19th-century mining booms. These settlements span from...

Officials in San Jose, California, this week released results from the second phase of a AI-powered object detection pilot, which uses computer vision to identify street hazards like potholes, illegal dumping and debris. According to the city, the artificial intelligence system flagged nearly 70% of issues before...

A garage fire at a two-story townhouse on the 6300 block of Holly Gillingham Lane turned into a real-time stress test of the building's safety systems yesterday, and the sprinklers passed with flying colors. A full first-alarm response from the San José Fire Department was dispatched to the scene, but officials said...

There’s a magical place in California where your dream of homeownership doesn’t require winning the lottery, where mountains frame your morning view, and where neighbors still bring over welcome baskets when you move in. Tucked away in Siskiyou County, just shy of the Oregon border, Yreka (pronounced “why-reeka”)...