Measure A will add a $79 tax per parcel on top of renewing an existing $49 tax to fund educational programs at Los Gatos High School and Saratoga High School.

Organifi, LLC, and its founder, Andrew Canole, were ordered to pay $150,000 in civil penalties and $50,000 in investigative costs and restitution

Instead of the two-thirds supermajority required for local bond measures, legislators are considering a proposed threshold of  55%. Had that standard been in place in 2018, San Jose, Santa Cruz County, Berkeley, San Diego and Santa Rosa would have been granted the power to borrow a total of $2.26 billion.

As of May 30, FEMA approved assistance for applicants in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, including Pajaro and the city of Watsonville, but the state has yet to name nonprofits that deliver the aid.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said $600 United Way checks are on their way to flood-affected farmworkers regardless of their immigration status — but he did not commit state funds to either undocumented workers or cannabis businesses, both of which don’t qualify for federal emergency aid.

Biden has previously approved Newsom’s disaster declaration request, including public and individual support for Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties.

Page Mill Road will be closed from 8am-5pm today and Friday, while crews repair a sinkhole along a stretch of the road between Paseo del Roble Drive near Moon Lane and Arastradero Road in Los Altos Hills. State Route 92 was closed early this morning in both directions along a 4-mile stretch between Skyline Boulevard and west to Pilarcitos Creek Road.

Santa Clara County will receive $16.7 million to buy and convert the Crestview Hotel in Mountain View into 48 housing units for chronically homeless residents, homeless youth and young people at risk of becoming homeless. The county has already approved spending roughly $23 million on the project in addition to the state funding, which means each apartment unit will cost approximately $827,000. 

More than 5,300 people with COVID-19 were hospitalized in California on Sunday, almost twice the number two weeks earlier.

Bars in both counties will also be allowed to reopen indoors at 25% capacity or 100 people.

There have been 15 confirmed cases of the rare clotting event among nearly 8 million total doses administered in the U.S. All were women.

As wildfire and mudslide threats prompt mountain residents to flee, Silicon Valley’s remote workers are eager to take their place.

Parts of the Bay Area, including Santa Clara County, are at risk of power outages and increased fire danger this week.

Apple, which is headquartered in Cupertino, allegedly made misrepresentations about the batteries in some of its iPhones a few years ago.

Initial damage estimates for the SCU Lightning Complex zone put the loss of cattle and grazing lands at $26 million.

The fires include the CZU Complex, which ripped through the Santa Cruz Mountains to become the state’s ninth-most destructive fire.