Fallen Officer Michael Johnson Remembered
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...
San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose named ‘happiest’ U.S. cities in world ranking
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...
Owner of San Jose day care where two toddlers drowned convicted
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 .
💰 Two affordable studio condos for sale in Los Altos — apply by April...
The City of Los Altos is offering two below-market-rate studio condos at 425 First Street for $192,392 and $197,801 through its BMR Purchase Program. These homes are reserved for low-income, first-time homebuyers earning up to $111,700 for one person or $127,650 for two people (80% of the area median income for Santa...
West San Jose Mega Makeover: El Paseo Towers Start Climbing Skyward
The bare dirt at El Paseo de Saratoga is finally giving way to concrete and steel. Heavy equipment and cranes are now reshaping the long-planned West San Jose site, and after months of demolition and excavation, the first towers and retail boxes are poking above the fence line along Saratoga Avenue.
San Jose warns of blight woes at foreclosed housing tower site downtown
SAN JOSE — City officials are poised to crack down on a site of blight in downtown San Jose where a housing tower was once proposed but never built, a stalled process that led to a foreclosure of what the owner called a rat-infested property. In the wake of...
Mosquito spraying in San José neighborhoods
The County of Santa Clara will begin mosquito spraying in parts of San José to reduce the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can spread dengue and Zika. Treatments will take place between Cortez Avenue and Orlando Drive starting March 26–27, and between Cypress Point Court and Fairway Glen Lane starting April 2–3, weather...
Santa Clara County supermom supervisors pave the way
It’s a delicate dance balancing work and motherhood, especially if you’re a politician. For Santa Clara County Supervisors Margaret Abe-Koga, Sylvia Arenas, Betty Duong and Susan Ellenberg, life as a super mom is both challenging and rewarding. All four women learned early on the sacrifices that come with public...
Masked Master-Key Mail Bandits Rattle One San Jose Block
Masked thieves with what appear to be stolen postal master keys are repeatedly raiding mail in San Jose’s Almaden neighborhood, and now federal postal inspectors are on the case. Residents on Almaden Walk Loop say that since September, two men have been slipping in overnight, opening a community mailbox with a master...
BART Calls Milpitas ‘New’ On X, Transit Diehards Aren’t Having It
BART tried to give Milpitas Station a little social media shine this week, and transit watchers wasted no time pointing out a small problem: the station is not actually new. Today, the BART's official X account replied to a user with a short message calling Milpitas "a new station" and inviting riders to "come check...
