Santa Clara

There’s has been a concerning rise in the proportion of COVID-19 infections in children over the last few weeks.

The Santa Clara Valley Water District said the pipe broke late Wednesday night. The 25-foot-wide sinkhole swallowed two vehicles at a commuter parking lot, officials said.

Two people briefed on the matter say the Trump administration is banning U.S. flights to all Cuban cities but Havana in the latest move to roll back Obama-era easing of relations.

San Francisco and Santa Clara counties filed the first lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s new rules to deny green cards to migrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, came after the Department of Homeland Security’s announcement Monday of its expanded “public charge” rules to restrict legal immigration. In a...

The top-ranked Crimson Tide and No. 2 Tigers both had double-digit victories in their semifinal games Saturday, setting up what has quickly become an annual postseason meeting. They will meet in the College Football Playoff for the fourth consecutive year, the third time in the championship game. And the winner this time will become the first 15-0 FBS champion. Alabama-Clemson...

The man suspected of gunning down a Newman police officer during a traffic stop Wednesday has been taken into police custody in Central California following a three-day manhunt, the Stanislaus County Sheriff Department said. The suspect, identified by the sheriff as Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 33, is believed to have gunned down Newman police Cpl. Ronil Singh was arrested south of Bakersfield.

The suspect who allegedly shot and killed a Newman police officer following a traffic stop early Wednesday morning has been identified and is believed to still be in Stanislaus County, the county’s sheriff said Thursday.

La policía ha informado que una mujer de 24 años murió la semana pasada después de que la motocicleta tipo scooter en la que viajaba fuera golpeada por un vehículo en el área de Aspen Hill.

Verizon allegedly throttled the internet connection of an emergency vehicle as firefighters fought the Mendocino Complex Fire, the largest wildfire ever recorded in California history, according to the Santa Clara County Fire Department chief.

Buried in a criminal complaint against a former Apple engineer who’s being charged with stealing trade secrets is a remarkable revelation about the size of Apple’s autonomous car project: 5,000 employees are working on it, CNBC reported. Xiaolang Zhang, hired by Apple to work on software and hardware for self-driving cars in December 2015, is accused of downloading files with...

California moved a step closer Wednesday to requiring solar panels on new homes and low-rise apartment buildings starting in 2020, the first such mandate nationwide and the state’s latest step to curb greenhouse gas emissions. “Adoption of these standards represents a quantum leap in statewide building standards,” said Robert Raymer, technical director for the California Building Industry Association. “You can...

In 2008 Raul Castro took over a country where most people couldn’t own computers or cellphones, leave without permission, run most types of private businesses or enter resort hotels. Castro set about re-engineering the system he had helped create and Cuba opened dramatically over his decade in office. But when Castro steps down as president Thursday he will leave his...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has finalized a contract with a Bay Area-based company that gives the agency access to location-tracking information for license plates across the country. The data will come from Vigilant Solutions, a Livermore company that has collected 2 billion license plate photos through the years. The contract comes after years of internal ICE lobbying and includes some...

A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to cut funding from cities that limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities. U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick rejected the administration’s argument that the executive order applies only to a relatively small pot of money and said Trump cannot set new conditions on spending approved by...

Vineyards moved their wine harvest to the cool of night and transit trains slowed for fear that some of the hottest weather in San Francisco Bay Area history would warp rails Saturday, as stifling temperatures and the smoky pall of wildfires marked an unofficial end to summer across the U.S. West. In Los Angeles, a 5,800-acre blaze just north of...

Police in Mountain View are searching for the owner of an album containing World War II-era photographs that was found near a homeless encampment Monday. Ian Cull reports.

A generator on a marijuana farm is to blame for a fire last year that destroyed a dozen homes south of San Francisco, investigators said Thursday.

The Trump administration has told two California counties it has no plans right now to seek a court ruling immediately reinstating the president’s executive order to withhold funding from communities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities....
Court documents filed on Friday and signed by U.S. Justice Department attorneys say the administration has indicated to Santa Clara and San Francisco counties that...

There’s no question that Lady Gaga was on fire all on her own. But her Super Bowl extravaganza was made even more electrifying by 300 “Shooting Star” drones floating above a Houston sky, created by Santa Clara-based Intel, which proudly tweeted about its tech throughout the Big Game.

A judge has ordered a notorious serial rapist who muffled victim’s screams with a pillowcase back to a California state mental hospital because he violated terms of his release.