In an unexpected deal welcomed by city leaders, Amazon - one of the big winners of the pandemic - is planning a huge new South Bay industrial center.

Thanks to a new round of Coronavirus aid, struggling businesses across the South Bay may soon get access to new support to stay afloat. Some business owners fear taking on more debt.

Santa Clara County isn't playing along with the state's new stadium reopening guidelines, declining to allow fans to watch the 49ers play anytime soon. 49ers president Al Guido still holds out hope that the team and the County can work together to achieve this goal.

Despite objections from health officials, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk plans to move forward with a total Halloween experience in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic.

Enforcement of outdoor dining seemed to suddenly change last Saturday, when police visited and shut down a number of restaurants in Pedro Square. San Jose City Council is now set to extend Al Fresco dining hours, as a result.

A recent change in Santa Cruz County’s status on the state’s tiered reopening list means the downtown area won’t be entirely closed down over Halloween weekend. That doesn't mean cops won't be out enforcing public health and open-container regulations.

Polling sites and drop boxes are popping up across the state ahead of Election Day, and Santa Clara County officials are taking steps to ensure safety from things like fraud and voter intimidation with vows from law enforcement.

Measure H, also known as the Cardroom Tax, would increase the gross revenue tax for Bay 101 Casino and Casino Matrix from 15% to 16.5% while expanding the number of gaming tables.

A San Jose Church that has been slapped with repeat violations of coronavirus health orders has now been issued a court order by Santa Clara County.

Santa Clara County announced that health professionals across the area have conducted more than 1 million coronavirus tests since the pandemic began.

A newly-proposed renovation project will breathe new life into the 94-year-old building that has sat dormant for years, adding dining and entertainment space to an annex at the rear and a striking exterior staircase.

Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody displayed a graph showing a dramatic spike representing 358 new Coronavirus cases reported on Sunday. That is the second-highest number of cases reported on one day in the county since the pandemic began in March.

The 49ers may not be winning on the field this season but last week marked a huge victory for the team’s owner Jed York, who basically placed a massive bet that he could shift the power of the Santa Clara City Council, and won. 

Move over veteran California legislators, Alex Lee, who just became California’s youngest state assemblymember to be elected in 80 years, is promising to make some pretty big changes once he starts his term.

The largest South Bay business group, Silicon Valley Organization (SVO), says it's not going anywhere and plans to continue to fight calls to dissolve after the group posted a racist and disturbing political ad leading up to the November 3rd election.

Coronavirus cases are surging to record-breaking levels across the U.S. and California, and with several Bay Area counties already rolling back their reopenings, it appears Santa Clara County is on track to follow along.

Like other once-thriving brick-and-mortar retailers, Fry’s Electronics stores seem to be slowly disappearing. The latest casualty for the San Jose-based chain is its store on Hamilton Avenue in Campbell. 

By now many of us realize that the Christmas season may not be as merry this year compared to years past. With COVID-19 cases rising as we approach Thanksgiving, many communal Christmas experiences we’ve come to count on will likely be curtailed.

The City of San Jose has partnered with Mastercard to actually pay homeless people to clean up their own trash at messy camps.

There’s no debate San Jose can use more affordable housing. But a debate that seems to never go away is whether or not to close the Reid-Hillview Airport in East San Jose.

The City of Palo Alto has decided to protest a sprawling plan for future Bay Area housing that was recently announced by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), which would require Palo Alto to build 10,000 new housing units in the next decade.

In September, San Jose Police released officer body-camera video of the incident which also included an aerial video from KPIX. In the video, you can see Baca walk up to an officer while holding a cell phone. As the video plays out, Baca grabs onto an officer’s baton before he is dragged to the ground and arrested.

Santa Clara County Undersheriff Rick Sung has now been indicted in a long-running corruption scandal allegedly involving dirty campaign money in exchange for concealed-carry gun permits.

For months now, most businesses have been adhering to health measures and restrictions brought on by the pandemic, but there has never been full-blown enforcement of the rules in Santa Clara County, until now.

San Jose Police have released the name of the man who they say stabbed two people to death and injured three others in a savage attack inside Grace Baptist Church on East San Fernando Street Sunday Night.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo is the latest public figure to say sorry for essentially breaking his own rules. On Tuesday, Liccardo issued an apology for what he did on Thanksgiving which was in direct violation of state coronavirus guidelines.

Officials with the Santa Clara County Public Health Department said Wednesday that just 12% of the hospital beds in the county were available and that there were only 44 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds countywide that were not being used.

The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety announced on Twitter that it recently busted a crew of five suspects who they say ripped off at least 100 people for a million dollars in fraudulent unemployment benefit payments.

One of the biggest, most ambitious development projects in the history of downtown San Jose, known as Downtown West, continues to make headlines. 

A Santa Clara County judge has held Calvary Chapel in San Jose and its pastor Mike McClure in contempt for holding large indoor worship services with up to 600 people, which is in direct violation of state safety guidelines.

The holiday gathering-fueled coronavirus surge in the South Bay is getting more and more alarming by the day, but Wednesday’s announcement by the Santa Clara County Public Health Department sounds more like the area is headed toward catastrophe.

With the pandemic worsening across Santa Clara County, leaders of the Catholic Church came together Friday to issue a stern message to people who were planning to celebrate Our lady of Guadalupe: Don’t come!

The San Jose State Spartans football team is coming off what could arguably be their best regular-season performance in school history. But their epic undefeated championship season is being shrouded in controversy because the team appears to be breaking coronavirus travel guidelines put in place by Santa Clara County. 

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo waited until the second to last day possible to deliver his city-required, annual State of the City address. The speech happened virtually and was originally supposed to occur in the spring but was put on hold because of the pandemic.

Plans have been in the works for the last three years to build what would become one of the Bay Area’s biggest dams. But now, after a huge price increase, the much-anticipated project could be taking some big steps backward.

The cause of a massive, four-alarm fire that shot flames hundreds of feet into the sky on Thursday morning in downtown San Jose remains under investigation by fire investigators.

Like many other areas of the county, Santa Clara County announced today that it is falling behind in coronavirus vaccine distribution and has given out less than half of its inventory.

Kaiser Permanente in San Jose has been dealing with the aftermath of a deadly outbreak in its Emergency Department that started Christmas morning and now we are learning it also paid a hefty price for similar allegations months before.

The Santa Clara County Public Health Department held a press conference Sunday to announce that the area is dealing with the growing threat of a new coronavirus variant that appears to be the source of several outbreaks in the county.

A hunger strike is underway at the main jail in Santa Clara County with inmates not eating for one week so far. The inmates are trying to draw attention to what they call unsafe pandemic conditions and unfair treatment of inmates who test positive for Covid-19.

Officers with the San Jose Police Department shot and killed a homicide suspect near an apartment complex on the east side of the city Thursday morning.

The man who was killed on January 21 by SJPD officers has now been identified as 27-year-old David Lee Tovar Jr., and police say he was unarmed when they shot him.

A 40-year-old homeless man from San Jose is back in jail after police say he returned to the scene of a preschool where he was arrested days before for a bizarre crime spree.

Last week we learned the shocking accusations against a Santa Clara County Deputy who allegedly lied about surviving an ambush-style, drive-by, hate-crime shooting on a dark, rural road over a year ago.

We’re used to seeing football games or concerts at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. Now the massive facility will turn into what will be the biggest mass-vaccination site in the state.

San Jose Police officers will now get specialized training that is aimed at improving the relationship with the members of the city’s LGBTQ Community. 

The coronavirus pandemic has made working from home commonplace for hundreds of thousands of people in the Bay Area, which means the demand for office space has plummeted over the past year.

Churches across Santa Clara County were rejoicing this week when they were told they could resume indoor worship services under limited capacity and with new guidelines. But just a few days later, that hope was pulled out from under them when the county was told by a U.S. District Judge that it could reinstate the ban on indoor church gatherings.

The City of San Jose is trying something new to battle the homeless crisis, and this latest solution could solve two problems at once.

Calvary Chapel in San Jose owes more than $2 million dollars in fines for openly defying the ban on indoor gatherings imposed for months by Santa Clara County.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern California District announced that Salvatore La Rosa, who formerly was a contract manager for concessions at Earthquakes Stadium has pleaded guilty to accusations that he sabotaged the menus and payments systems at the stadium last year on opening day.

Bay Area developer Jemcor Development Partners is looking at the site of shuttered South San Jose restaurant The Fish Market as its location for a large new housing project that would be 100% affordable.

After decades of being strictly accessible to only people with a Palo Alto address, the 1,440-acre park is now open to the public. Since its opening in late December, the park’s popularity has soared among hikers and sightseers across the Bay Area.

Something new called "The Energy Hub" is in the works that could dramatically transform the skyline of downtown San Jose.

Another innovative and ambitious project is now being proposed that could be a huge game-changer in the effort to revitalize and transform downtown San Jose.

Two former students of Saint Francis High School and their parents are suing the prestigious, private, Catholic institution in Mountain View for $20 million dollars in what they claim was a case of mistaken racism that cost the teen boys and their families irreparable harm.

Since 2018, the city of Palo Alto has been enforcing stringent parking restrictions on people living in motorhomes and vans on El Camino Real, and this week the debate about the parking enforcement has resurfaced.

Another piece of downtown San Jose’s revitalization puzzle has gotten the green light. A large, new housing development called ‘Madera @ Downtown West’ hopped over a major hurdle this week when the San Jose Planning Department gave the project final approval.

The City of San Jose is facing a looming deadline from the feds to come up with a plan to clean up a massive homeless camp near Mineta San Jose International Airport, which sits under one of the landing paths.

Food lovers in the South Bay have a new menu to explore thanks to Hotel Citrine in Palo Alto, which just recently opened to overnight guests on San Antonio Road.

Santa Clara County's Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is expected to receive $20 million dollars in state funds in response to the late-May mass shooting that left nine VTA workers dead.

Milk Bar in New York City, which has been slowly building a nationwide empire through direct shipping, now appears to believe the Bay Area could play a key role in its expansion.

If you like to hike in the mountains and you enjoy finding free money then you may want to head to Santa Cruz County. There’s a treasure hunt now underway and the prize is $1000 dollars in cash — cash that is hidden somewhere, geocache-style, in a box. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

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

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.

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.

A real estate investment firm based in New York City has just purchased a huge tech campus in North San Jose that contains three large buildings near Highway 237 and North First Street.

Many of the vendors who make their livings selling food, clothes, crafts, and other items at the San Jose Flea Market are now left waiting for answers and wondering what their next move may be in the coming years.

There’s growing controversy surrounding the mayor of San Jose, Sam Liccardo, and his alleged inappropriate use of public and private email accounts.

San Jose City Hall is back open for in-person business, including City Council meetings which started up again this week inside the chambers.

A new mask mandate went back into effect Tuesday encompassing almost the entire Bay Area, but there are of course some rebel-minded retail shoppers in the South Bay who are armed with their smartphone cameras and are blatantly breaking the rules.

Clean up the massive homeless camp near Mineta San Jose International Airport or risk getting some of the airport’s federal funding stripped — that’s the ultimatum that was dished out by the Federal Aviation Administration in June.

Last year, the Doobie Brothers became the first musical act from San Jose to make it into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, and now, the home where they got their explosive start appears to be becoming a new historic landmark for the city.

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), which was rocked a few months ago by a disgruntled employee’s deadly shooting spree, is now investigating claims of management hostility and harassment inside the agency’s information technologies department.

The safety of Airbnb rentals is once again being questioned after a deadly shooting inside a rented party house in Sunnyvale around 10 p.m. Saturday night.

An ugly, racially charged incident in Palo Alto has caught the attention of the community and its leaders.

A homeless encampment is growing on a property owned by Apple in North San Jose, and the site off Component Drive could soon see the arrival of even more residents if nothing is done soon. 

A new project that could drastically reduce the number of people living on the street in Palo Alto is now moving forward after a unanimous city council vote.

You may notice over the next couple of days that San Jose City Hall is lit up in rainbow colors as a way to pay tribute to Eddie Gale, who was an iconic jazz trumpet player decades ago.

Flames scorched an estimated 97% of the oldest state park in California. After a slow start, and setbacks due to the coronavirus, new life appears to be emerging inside Big Basin even though it will be quite a while before visitors are allowed back in. 

There’s someplace new for dog owners in Silicon Valley to take made-for-Instagram photos of their pets, get boba tea, and soon order boba cocktails.

Six-term Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith held a press conference Tuesday in response to calls to resign from San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, and she says she will not be stepping down.

San Francisco-based Airbnb is now suing the guest who apparently threw a massive and deadly party at a home they booked in Sunnyvale on August 7th.

Patricia Dowd died in San Jose on February 6th, 2020. Everyone believed for the last year that she was the first person in the U.S. to die from coronavirus, but now it appears she died weeks after several other people in California and five other states.

A project that was slated to transform a large section of the city of Mountain View now appears to be losing momentum because of disputes from one of the developers.

Despite anger, cursing, protest, and even a brief chamber evacuation, the San Jose City Council voted unanimously to require proof of full vaccination at events held at city-owned properties that have more than 50 people in attendance.

Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority (VTA) light-rail trains could be back up and running as early as this weekend after service was abruptly halted following a deadly mass shooting at the Guadalupe VTA rail yard near downtown San Jose on May 26th.

A North Bay food company that has built an empire around its healthy, frozen, grocery store concepts is now expanding in a major way in the South Bay.

You may notice less of a police presence at this weekend’s Silicon Valley Pride Parade, but it has nothing to do with public safety.

There is now a request from two Santa Clara County supervisors for a no-confidence vote over Sheriff Laurie Smith’s job performance, as she is accused of rampant mismanagement inside her jails.

When Selby’s (on El Camino Real on the Redwood City-Atherton border) first opened in July of 2019, the restaurant’s signature burger with a huge price tag definitely raised eyebrows and curiosity across the Bay Area.

New redevelopment plans have emerged that would dramatically transform Cambrian Park Plaza at the intersection of Camden Avenue and Union Avenue in southwest San Jose.

A new food hall, which is the first of its kind in Los Altos, is finally about to open its doors to anxious foodies in the South Bay.

A sizeable homeless camp that has been rapidly growing over the last six months in North San Jose is now being cleared out with heavy equipment and dumpsters.

A group of trees at a park under construction in downtown San Jose is now the source of some controversy.

A project that is set to transform an old downtown San Jose movie theater into a mixed-use project has cleared another hurdle and is now closer to being built.

Apple and the city of San Jose apparently have a new challenge on their hands after the tech giants cleared a large homeless camp on its 55-acre property in North San Jose and moved the residents into various locations.

A famous Bay Area festival that brings thousands of visitors to Half Moon Bay every fall has been canceled for a second straight year due to coronavirus.

Another ambitious plan for a huge new tech campus is moving forward in downtown San Jose after a judge cleared the way for a building on the site to be demolished.

Local government redistricting may not sound like the most exciting of political activities, but it actually has a direct impact on the day-to-day issues and challenges that your community faces.

One of San Jose’s premier shopping and dining destinations is about to offer customers new experiences on both fronts.

A few choice streets in Palo Alto have been closed for more than a year, and now one of them is about to reopen much to the dismay of some business owners who have enjoyed the walk-up traffic the closure has provided.

District 10 Councilmember Matt Mahan has a plan that would drastically ratchet up the use of prefab tiny homes as a temporary housing solution for the homeless.

If you’re anxious to get your fall tan going, or get the dog out for some splashing, these Bay Area beaches (starting north to south) will offer you easy parking, smaller crowds, and a bigger sense of adventure while you soak up the sun and the warmth. 

The San Jose City Council took action this week in hopes of making one of the city’s deadliest intersections safer for people crossing the street.

If you were planning to hit one of the biggest street festivals in the country this weekend you’ll have to make new plans

In the Bay Area, it’s rare for a brand new watering hole to not look clean, modern, and trendy, but a new bar that just opened near San Jose City Hall has gone the opposite direction.

You may remember 15-year old Tyler Gordon of San Jose, who live-painted a portrait of Kamala Harris on Twitter last year. Now he has a bestselling book.

Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez Chavez will hold a private event Thursday where she will officially announce her run for San Jose Mayor.

The developers of a 24-story building approved for downtown San Jose are now bringing to the table a new approach to attract smaller investors who want to dive into real estate.

Development plans are underway all across downtown San Jose, and that includes directly next to Diridon Station, which serves Caltrain, Amtrak, and other rail lines including a future new BART stop.

All the recently approved plans to grow the San Jose skyline taller may put a huge financial toll on San Jose Mineta International Airport, and the airlines that serve the facility due to federal regulations about tall buildings near airports.

The costs to finish a housing development in Fremont and another in San Jose have skyrocketed, which means the investments made by teachers and other public employees are now at risk of being wiped away.

A new Silicon Valley restaurant is promising fine dining with an upscale, yet approachable vibe. Shepherd & Sims is now open in Los Gatos at 15970 Los Gatos Boulevard.

Tesla recently made big headlines after CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company would be moving its headquarters in Palo Alto to Austin, Texas. But it appears that the company will keep at least some presence in Palo Alto.

It appears a beloved mural in the Washington-Guadalupe neighborhood in San Jose is going to be covered up at the behest of the property owner, and many in the community are upset.

A new, high-rise office tower planned for downtown San Jose that puts environmental elements on display is expected to clear a major hurdle in just a few weeks.

The 61-year-old Longhorn Charcoal Pit, at the corner of Fremont Avenue and Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road in Sunnyvale, is no longer serving its tasty steak sandwiches after closing down the restaurant permanently on Sunday.

New water restrictions appear to be coming to around a million households in the South Bay, and that includes steep fines for people who use too much.

Google has handed the city of San Jose three small but expensive pieces of land right by the SAP Center in downtown where the city plans to build affordable housing.

A statue in San Jose that has been a source of controversy even before it was installed, now finally appears to be headed to a storage yard. The statue displays former San Jose mayor Thomas Fallon holding a flag in San Jose while he was a captain in the Mexican–American War in 1846, after the U.S. had just taken possession of California. 

San Jose has one of the largest Vietnamese populations in the U.S., and now, a brand new building known as the Vietnamese American Service Center will soon help serve the estimated 140,000 residents in the area.

A proposal to bring new life to an old mall in West San Jose is now under public review. Developer Sand Property Co. wants to transform the El Paseo de Saratoga shopping center and the surrounding area at Saratoga Avenue and Lawrence Expressway into what it calls a ‘lifestyle community.’

The Los Gatos mother who is making national headlines for allegedly hosting parties for teenagers complete with sex and booze will be staying in jail for now after bail was denied.

Federal transportation officials now say that the price tag for BART’s new downtown San Jose extension will be higher than what local transit officials estimate.

There’s a new way for kids to keep from being bored out of their minds while waiting for their next flight out of San Jose Mineta International Airport.

The final push to bring 2026 World Cup soccer matches to Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara is now underway.

A popular art installation that once illuminated the sidewalks around the front of San Jose City Hall will be coming back in a few days, and it will stick around this time for the next six years.

A popular, privately-owned park in Milpitas is still being shut down by Santa Clara County despite the ongoing efforts of the owner to get it back open.

Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan was hit by a car and killed Wednesday morning while walking her dog near Grand Street and Shore Line Drive in Alameda.

Uber’s co-founder Travis Kalanick is working on a new digital food hall inside a historic downtown San Jose building that used to house a furniture store at East Santa Clara Street and South Third Street.

The wholesale giant Costco is planning an expansion in San Jose at the Westgate West shopping center.

Blue Bottle Coffee has been brewing up some explosive worldwide growth over the last few years and now one of the hallmarks of the company is going away.

A court ruling has kicked a massive downtown San Jose Development project into high gear after months of delays due to a battle over a Brutalist-style building that is now being torn down.

A busy intersection in Mountain View that is in the middle of a development boom could get another notable housing project added to the landscape.

Train noise in San Jose and other South Bay cities has been a problem for years, with residents battling railroad companies and regulations over train horns at the numerous street-level crossings.

The dock at Lake Merced received $1.68 million in upgrades and is now much safer, and completely accessible for people who have disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

A huge vote this week by the San Jose City Council will determine whether 314-acres of open space along the northern part of Coyote Valley will stay wild or turn into an "Amazon-style" industrial park.

Many people worried in the last year that a restaurant loved by tourists and tech workers inside San Francisco’s Ferry Building had served its last dish, but we now have further assurance that that is not true.

To help deal with parking congestion, the airport has laughed a new, online parking reservation system for Economy Lot 1, one of its long-term parking lots near Terminal A.

After years of waiting, Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood is finally about to get its own grocery store, a 31,000-square-foot Whole Foods.

Hi Neighbor Restaurant Group is hoping to capitalize on the nearby music and culture scene that is crawling back to life in Civic Center, and pivoting the former Corridor to become more of a cocktail bar.

The next big concert at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara could go later into the night after a vote by the city council last week.

Bay Area robberies that target well-known retailers have gotten out of control over the past several days, so much so that it has Governor Gavin Newsom saying he is taking action.

Bay Area bicyclists and pedestrians in Palo Alto now have a fancy new bridge to keep them out of harm’s way as they travel over Highway 101 from West Bayshore Road landing to East Bayshore Road landing.

We are already seeing many pre-pandemic holiday traditions return this year and San Jose’s annual Christmas in the Park event is one of the activities giving visitors a small taste of normalcy.

Nationally known luxury brand retailers have been the prime targets of the mob-style burglaries that have been front and center in the news this week. But the fact is those same types of brazen crimes have also happened to some small shops.

City crews have now installed what are known as K-Rail barriers at the Spring and Hedding street intersection near Columbus Park, in order to discourage vehicle and RV movement through the area.

A trendy, midcentury-style furniture company from Southern California has just leased a choice piece of retail real estate at the corner of Chestnut and Fillmore streets in the Marina.

A huge, village-type neighborhood that would consist of almost 1,500 new residences is now being proposed in North San Jose.

The city of Santa Clara plays host to one of the biggest women’s soccer tournaments in the U.S. this weekend and the home team, Santa Clara University, is hoping to capture another championship.

LinkedIn is getting ready for a major growth spurt in the city of Sunnyvale.

Plans for another modern office tower in downtown San Jose are now working their way through City Hall.

Santa Clara County’s political districts are about to undergo some major changes after a key Board of Supervisors vote Tuesday.

The San Jose City Council has officially extended the outdoor dining program, called San Jose 'Al Fresco,' and in some areas, it could eventually become permanent.

The historic Burbank Theater at Bascom Avenue and Parkmoor Avenue in San Jose is about to go up for auction.

The transformation of a beloved art museum into a state-of-the-art research incubator is almost complete in Berkeley.

The residents of San Jose’s biggest mobile home park have a campaign in the works to save their valuable 80-acre piece of land from big tech development.

A new housing development proposed in downtown San Jose will feature two 12-story towers that will contain 365-units of affordable housing.

Butano State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains, often known as the little sister to Big Basin Redwoods State Park, is getting ready to reopen its visitor center in January — the park actually reopened six months ago.

The fourth-tallest structure in Berkeley's skyline is about to officially open.

Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith now faces formal corruption charges from a civil grand jury which could eventually lead to her removal.

If you’re looking to get out of the Christmas spirit and immerse yourself into more of an island vibe, then a new Tiki bar called Dr. Funk in downtown San Jose’s San Pedro Square will be the perfect spot to drop anchor.

The 29-story building will sit at 605 South Second Street near the intersection of East Reed Avenue which lies in San Jose’s SoFA neighborhood.

Get ready for a big influx of development-created jobs and careers coming to the Oakland Coliseum site starting in the year 2024.

A tiny home village set up by Alameda County in San Leandro is apparently causing some big-time headaches for both the residents and the operators.

San Jose could become the first city in California to approve a mandate that would require vaccine booster shots for visitors and workers at all city-owned venues.

Ben’s BBQ & Brew will be saying its final goodbyes to customers after serving smoked meats for only three years at its location at the Westgate West center at Prospect Road and Lawrence Expressway.

A movie theater that is undergoing a complete renovation in downtown San Jose appears to have added another tenant: A restaurant and bar that centers around ax-throwing.

What better way to ring in the new year than to try a brand new German bakery in Berkeley that is serving up homemade soft pretzels in all kinds of varieties.

A new housing tower in downtown San Jose that offers a different spin on buying an apartment will break ground next year.

The boba tea craze in the Bay Area doesn’t appear to be stopping any time soon and now one of the biggest, and most visual players in the game has opened another location in Silicon Valley.

There is movement on BART's extension to San Jose, and eminent domain may soon be at play in a few areas of the city to make way for BART to reach Diridon Station and eventually the city of Santa Clara.

The store on Hamilton Avenue in Campbell and the store at the Great Mall in Milpitas are part of the initial group of 37 that will be closing in February.

A beloved downtown San Jose restaurant that features live music was relocated to a new home over the weekend, but operations are still underway at its old site.

A private high school on the border of Pacific Heights and Laurel Heights is planning for a big addition to the already scattered campus, and that means a strip mall will have to be bulldozed.

The next several years are going to be as transformative as ever for the downtown San Jose skyline with plans for at least a dozen high-rise projects being submitted to city planners last year alone.

A beloved 15-year-old restaurant in Oakland known for its delicious spin on soul food has now permanently closed.

The city of Sunnyvale has added a new task to its to-do list: Get rid of hundreds of noisy, messy crows, and officials will apparently use lasers to do it.

If you have court business to take care of in the South Bay you may have to put it off.

A new deli-style Korean restaurant specializing in handmade tofu and unique banchan offerings is now open in Oakland.

Fried chicken fans have a mouth-watering new option in Oakland as rising star barbeque chef Matt Horn expands his footprint with a comfort-food favorite.

Kids can get down and dirty while connecting with nature at a new, outdoor play area that just opened at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park.

Some big changes appear to be on the horizon for the Port of Redwood City as the push for waterfront development kicks into high gear.

As BART’s vision for two new stations in San Jose gets closer to a reality, another new housing development near one of the stations has been proposed and is now in the early stages with city planners.

The revered Italian restaurant in Oakland, Oliveto, has suddenly reopened its doors to patrons who were heavy-hearted when the 35-year-old restaurant went through what it called a permanent shutdown as of New Year's Eve.

A secret South Bay hideaway that pays tribute to Captain Hook, Blackbeard, and all the other famous pirates is about to get unearthed like a treasure chest and revealed to the entire world thanks to the National Geographic Television Series "The World According to Jeff Goldblum" on Disney+.

It appears the often-overlooked city of Menlo Park is about to get a new dining destination, and it is sure to attract interest from foodies in Silicon Valley.

The owners have turned the temporary Liholiho space on 18th into an entirely new restaurant called Good Good Culture Club, under the helm of some up-and-coming chefs.

The Bay Area is home to all kinds of exciting sports venues, but it appears it’s about to get one type that it's never had before.

Bay Area music fans will have a new concert venue to break in starting this month as the doors open at the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park.

Construction is now underway on a massive, new building dedicated entirely to housing transfer students on the campus of UC Berkeley. The school broke ground at the building site this week at the corner of University Avenue and Oxford Street.

BART riders who get on and off at the Warm Springs/South Fremont station will no longer have to make take an arduous, indirect trek around the nearby Union Pacific railroad tracks.

After being closed for almost two years because of the pandemic, a well-known and intimate live jazz music venue in San Jose’s SoFA District has now decided not to reopen and will be ending its operations permanently.

Health officers in 12 NorCal jurisdictions will allow vaccinated people to move about their lives mask-free starting next Wednesday, February 16th.

A building on Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland that was the first headquarters of the Black Panther Party could be demolished to make way for a 20-unit apartment complex.

The number of storefront cannabis dispensaries could more than double in the next few months if the city council approves new zoning changes that were pushed forward by the Planning Commission in a recent 8 to 3 vote.

Plans for a new apartment building in Berkeley are getting a lot taller after a new developer took over an already approved project in the downtown area.

A building at UC Berkeley, one that students have disliked since it first went up, is about to get torn down.

The City of Oakland is taking the next step in a plan to turn its old police headquarters building into a new, mixed-use development that will feature at least 600-apartment units.

We’re getting our first look this week at a massive proposed mixed-use development that will completely surround and transform BART’s West Oakland Station.

Units inside a pair of shiny new housing towers in downtown San Jose, which have been plagued by snags and hiccups, are now up for sale.

Silicon Valley food fans who have a taste for the extravagant will soon have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a whole new dining experience thanks to the Chinese restaurant iChina at the Westfield Valley Fair mall in Santa Clara.

Funding has been approved by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors for a new housing development in Palo Alto that will be dedicated entirely to teachers.

The owner of one of the Bay Area’s fanciest restaurants is now toning down the high-end vibe he created at his restaurant Baumé in Palo Alto.

Eastridge Little League is now scrambling to find a new place to play baseball after getting caught in the crosshairs over a years-long battle over Reid-Hillview Airport in East San Jose.

The city of Santa Clara is now operating without its top two administrators after city council members voted to fire City Manager Deanna Santana.

We’re getting our first look at a proposed new affordable housing development in Oakland’s Fruitvale District. Villa Fruitvale will be built on 0.88-acres at 3751 International Boulevard at the intersection of 38th Avenue.

The city of San Jose is laying out big plans after receiving a large chunk of money as part of a deal with Google which allows the tech giant to build its 80-acre mega campus called Downtown West near SAP Center and Diridon Station.

We’re getting our first look at plans that are in the works for a new restaurant and bar in one of San Jose’s most vibrant neighborhoods.