Wesley Severson

Two 1,000-square-foot digital billboards are set to be built along Highway 101 near Mineta San Jose International Airport, and crews will need to cut down 43 trees to make room for them.

Concertgoers, venue staff, even members of a band are now connected to an alarming coronavirus outbreak that happened during a recent concert in Santa Cruz County.

It seems like every week we hear about plans for a new high-rise building in downtown San Jose. This week is no different.

Once again this year, since the Santa Clara County fairgrounds are still being used for coronavirus testing and vaccinations and as cases surge once more, fair organizers have had to scramble to keep parts of the event alive. 

Facebook is now looking to build a huge new, living/working village development right by its already massive Menlo Park headquarters.

Eureka!, which many refer to as ‘Eureka Burger,’ has expanded its local presence adding a fifth location in the Bay Area this month in Santa Clara.

It’s something we’ve never seen before in the Bay Area, a residential development in the heart of a major city that sits next to a sizeable, working farm.

The Gilroy Garlic Festival has returned this year as a drive-thru event only, with pre-orders and vendors all stationed at Gilroy Presbyterian Church.

Other cities have tried it, and now the city of Mountain View is in the spotlight after the ACLU and the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley launched a new class-action lawsuit over its law banning RV parking.

It appears that a popular Asian supermarket in downtown San Jose will soon be moving to make way for another residential high-rise project.

A massive real estate deal in Sunnyvale has brought new hope that the market for commercial office space in Silicon Valley may be starting to rebound after it was totally flipped upside down because of the work from home movement during the pandemic.

The town of Los Gatos could experience tremendous population growth over the next 20 years if the updated draft of the city’s updated 2040 General Plan becomes a reality.

Officials in San Jose say crimes like prostitution and drug use are an everyday occurrence at Agave Sports Bar and Grill on Alma Street, and now they’ve taken an aggressive step to shut down the establishment.

Santa Clara is the latest Bay Area city to join other cities and counties across the state to declare a local emergency because of worsening drought conditions.

Several large-scale projects that will change the skyline of downtown San Jose are in the planning stages right now, and another one just submitted documents to the city this week on a site familiar to many.

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, a three-term incumbent, will face his first opponent in the upcoming 2022 election.

Getting from one corner of Santa Clara County to the other will be a lot easier if plans for a new "bicycle superhighway" come to a reality.

Many people in the Bay Area may not have heard the hype about the Mexican ceviche chain Mango Crazy, but it has been expanding like crazy throughout the pandemic.

The famous Los Angeles-area 24-hour Jewish delicatessen, Canter’s Deli, which has locations in Pasadena, Santa Monica, and its flagship on Fairfax Avenue in LA, is now serving its iconic food here in the Bay Area thanks to a new partnership with DoorDash.

Anderson Dam and Reservoir are about to undergo a massive reconstruction project that will take a decade to complete. That means the Valley Water District will have to drain Santa Clara County’s largest reservoir and look to new sources for water storage just as the state sinks back into serious drought conditions. 

Plans for hundreds of new, affordable housing units in the eastern part of downtown San Jose are now being pushed forward by the Santa Clara County Housing Authority.

Wheels will hit the hardwood for the first time in a year and three months at the Aloha Roller Rink in East San Jose. The location at the Eastridge Mall opened back up to anxious roller skaters starting Saturday, July 3.

Brewing company Gordon Biersch has had a presence in San Jose’s Japantown district for three decades, and now it appears it will stay in its same location for decades more.

The San Jose City Council has delayed for another week a decision that would rezone the area where the Berryessa Flea Market has lived for 61 years.

The skyline of San Jose will be getting a shiny, new addition in the coming years after the San Jose City Council gave final approval to the project on June 30th. The pair of 20-story glass office towers will be built on a three-acre site at 276 Woz Way, just northeast of the Interstate 280/Highway 87 interchange.