Campbell, a writer and musician, is curator of Beautiful Black Books as part of Poetry Center San Jose and conducts lectures, workshops in creative writing and spiritual verse.

The contract agreement with Santa Clara Valley Transportation workers was reached months ahead of the current contract expiration that would have occurred in September.

The statewide mandate includes prohibitions over watering yards, washing cars without a shutoff nozzle, hosing down sidewalks or watering grass within 48 hours after rainfall. 

San Jose Police used crisis intervention techniques to take into custody a man iarmed with an axe and knife who was vandalizing businesses at a shopping center early today

The homicide suspect was hospitalized with injuries after the Sunday afternoon car chase from Milpitas into Fremont. Police declined to identify the 42-year-old suspect or the 35-year-old victim.

Prosecutors said they were unable to gather enough evidence showing free lance filmmaker Jeremy Portje intended to injure a Sausalito officer in a Nov. 30 incident when police confiscated video equipment at a homeless encampment.

Three suspects in a rash of vehicle burglaries fled Sunnyvale police on foot and two of them were arrested a short time later with assistance from the air support unit of the San Jose Police Department. A third suspect remains at large.

A new report released this month by The Campaign for College Opportunity highlights that more eligible students are applying to the University of California and California State University campuses than those colleges can admit.

To be fully up to date with COVID vaccine protection, people need to have a booster shot, said County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office arrested a San Jose man this week after he allegedly made threats involving a gun during a virtual VTA meeting.

The zoning changes will limit the number of single-family homes that can be built across the parts of Coyote Valley that do not fall within the boundaries of the cities of San Jose and Morgan Hill. 

Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, Alameda, and Sonoma counties said their rules won't change, despite the month long statewide mandate that went into effect Wednesday morning.  

The arrest of 15 suspects over several weeks in the Bay Area was the culmination of a six-month investigation into the thefts that also netted more than $50,000 in cash, four handguns and an illegal assault rifle, ammunition, evidence of identity theft, tools and more than 1,000 catalytic converters.

Regular tolls for two-axle cars and trucks and for motorcycles on seven bridges will rise to $7 from $6, according to the Bay Area Toll Authority.

The federal appeals court overturned the decision of a lower court judge who had invalidated California's ban on possession of large-capacity magazines, like the ones used in the killings at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, as well as the recent fatal shootings at a Michigan high school.

The arrests followed a fatal shooting on Halloween in South San Jose.