The new ordinance “is critical to deal with the significant volume of complaints,” County Counsel James Williams told the Board of Supervisors.

The verdict’s in. There will be no proposal for a 0.625-cent increase in the Santa Clara County sales tax on the Nov. 3 ballot after all.

The war of words between the city of Santa Clara and the San Francisco 49ers flared up again this week, with millions of dollars on the line.

Note: This new assessment prompted San Jose Inside to take a fresh look at two years of compensation for employees in California cities.

County data show that testing increased significantly in the month following a June 10 order for private healthcare systems to step up.

The city has projected other budget-related issues, but the Transient Occupancy Tax would be the biggest hit.

The $501,457 that City Manager Deanna Santana made in 2019 tops that of her counterparts in much larger municipalities.

The 49ers say Santa Clara owes it $2.74 million. The city says the team owes it $1.1 million. Each side refuses to pay until the other side pays first.

County officials last month had complained that public facilities run by Valley Med were handling nearly 90 percent of COVID-19 tests.

Local businesses that want to reopen with restrictions have less than a week to file new paperwork with public health officials.

From rising COVID-19 cases to shutdown orders from the state, the Fourth of July weekend didn’t give local officials much to celebrate.

The California Department of Public Health denied the county’s request for a variance from state COVID-19 protocols.

More businesses and workplaces could re-open in Santa Clara County as early as July 13, as long as new strict social distancing rules and other COVID-19 public health protocols are met, Santa Clara County officials announced today. (more…)

The new increases in cases, hospitalizations and deaths in California ended a downward trend across the state and jolted public officials.

Santa Clara County still wants more help from Big Three private healthcare systems to conduct as many tests as it needs to safely reopen.

While homelessness worsens, county bond funds aren’t being spent fast enough and money is being thrown at political donors’ stalled projects.