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Proponents for and against Measure T—the $24 parcel tax designed to protect and preserve undeveloped land and natural open spaces in the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority district—view the measure through entirely different lenses even in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.

Police are searching for Gilroy resident Kevin James Gitmed in relation to an Oct. 10 homicide that occurred in Milpitas, according to authorities.

Election Day is Nov. 3, but voters in Santa Clara County have already started casting and submitting their ballots, partly thanks to the installation of dozens of 24-hour drop boxes placed by election officials throughout the county.

The expansion project for Highway 25 has been an ongoing quandary in San Benito County that has spanned for more than two decades, leading to nothing but a road of dead ends. But that’s about to change after the Council of San Benito County Governments...

A Covid-19 testing site will be set up in the Morgan Hill Council Chamber Building, 17555 Peak Ave., on Oct. 13 from 9:30am-4pm. Appointments can be made until all slots are reserved at scl.fulgentgenetics.com/appointment. The Santa Clara County test sites provide Covid-19 tests free of charge, regardless...

Although Rene Spring thinks the top priority—perhaps for some time—going into the next Morgan Hill City Council term will be the Covid-19 pandemic, the District C incumbent still has some long-term goals if he wins re-election to his second term.

From an early age, Juan Miguel Munoz Morris saw firsthand the value of being civic-minded and helping others. His grandfather fought in World War Two and the Korean War, his grandmother was a social worker and his father was actively involved in local politics in Spain, as the country transitioned from a dictatorship to a democracy in the mid-1970s.

As the SCU Lightning Complex Fire raged and the evacuation warnings approached her Morgan Hill home, Deborah Vick and her family didn’t gather the usual items such as credit cards and other important documents.

Santa Cruz’s Good Times weekly has purchased the Press-Banner from Tank Town Media just as the Santa Cruz Mountains newspaper prepares to celebrate its 60th year of publishing.

Conservationists and open space proponents this week completed the purchase of the Tilton Ranch in Morgan Hill, bolstering a continuous linkage of protected land throughout the South Bay that allows wildlife to live in peace and safely cross between mountain ranges on both sides of Santa Clara Valley.