San Jose CA

The City of Santa Clara will hold a free Household Hazardous Waste drop-off event on Saturday, April 25. Residents can safely dispose of items that cannot go in weekly trash or recycling carts. Accepted materials include old paint, chemical cleaners, pesticides, fluorescent lamps, batteries, medications, sharps, and...

San Jose is gearing up to put real pressure on the owner of a foreclosed downtown parcel that city inspectors say has slid into plain-view blight. The skinny lot at 27 South First Street, once cleared for a 24-story, 374-unit tower, has sat idle since the project fell apart, and neighbors have been complaining about...

An artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robot is being tested for several months at San Jose Mineta International Airport.

Concerned residents have been reporting issues of mail theft in San Jose, where thieves have been using master keys to steal credit cards, checks and other important mail.

For hundreds of students who live in the neighborhoods near the school, it’s easy enough to wake up around 8 and still make it to the first class of the day. For several other students, however, the opposite is true. They live many miles away and must wake up much earlier and even be on the road by 7 or 7:30 to make...

Less than a week after shocking revelations upended the legacy of Cesar Chavez, San Jose has begun to firm up plans to remove his name and likeness from publicly-owned properties. San Jose Spotlight reports these plans will be discussed this afternoon at the city's Rules and Open Government Committee meeting.

Santa Clara County property owners are being asked to sign off on a new yearly charge aimed at keeping the Mosquito and Vector Control District fully staffed as invasive, day-biting mosquitoes creep deeper into local neighborhoods. The proposal would tack about $16 a year onto a typical single-family homeowner’s...

On March 24, 2015, Officer Michael Johnson, a 14-year veteran of the San Jose Police Department, was killed in the line of duty while responding to a call on the 2600 block of Senter Road. The suspect, armed with handguns, fired from a second-floor balcony, fatally striking Officer Johnson before being shot by...

A British consulting group has ranked San Francisco, San Diego and San Jose as the three happiest cities in the United States in an annual international study. The sixth annual Happy City Index by the metropolitan London-based Gold Group was announced in Britain’s Parliament this week. European and Japanese...

Two women co-owned Happy Happy Daycare, where two 1-year-old girls drowned and a 2-year-old boy was pulled from the pool in critical condition in October 2023 .