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CalMatters: Newsom’s AI Panel Wants More Transparency from Companies and Testing of Models

CalMatters: Newsom’s AI Panel Wants More Transparency from Companies and Testing of Models

CalMatters

March 26, 2025

A group of artificial intelligence luminaries convened by Gov. Gavin Newsom issued what is expected to be an influential set…

Santa Clara Adds to Housing Stock, Council Approves Nearly 2K Apartments

Santa Clara Adds to Housing Stock, Council Approves Nearly 2K Apartments

David Alexander

March 26, 2025

Santa Clara will get another massive housing development. At its most recent meeting, March 25, the Santa Clara City Council…

Sunnyvale Incentivizes Retail Space At Town Centers

Sunnyvale Incentivizes Retail Space At Town Centers

David Alexander

March 26, 2025

Begrudgingly, the Sunnyvale City Council approved a program that aims to encourage more retail in the city’s northside town centers,…

VTA Offers Uber Vouchers to Help Decrease Blow of Strike

VTA Offers Uber Vouchers to Help Decrease Blow of Strike

Erika Towne

March 25, 2025

The Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has begun offering Uber vouchers to help people who rely on public transit to get…

Firebirds Fight Off Bruins for First Place 

Firebirds Fight Off Bruins for First Place 

Andrew Bensch

March 25, 2025

It’s still early in the high school baseball season, but Tuesday, March 18, was the setting of a big battle…

Sunnyvale DPS Arrests Man in 2009 Cold Case Rape

Sunnyvale DPS Arrests Man in 2009 Cold Case Rape

Erika Towne

March 25, 2025

Sunnyvale detectives have arrested a man in connection to a kidnapping and rape committed in 2009. According to the Sunnyvale…

Silicon Valley Power Head Leaves for San Jose

Silicon Valley Power Head Leaves for San Jose

Erika Towne

March 24, 2025

The chief electric utility officer for Santa Clara is headed to San Jose. The City of San Jose announced on…

Ghosts Of The Past: Mass Shooter’s Victims Get A Win After Judge Rules To Keep Him On Death Row

Ghosts Of The Past: Mass Shooter’s Victims Get A Win After Judge Rules To Keep Him On Death Row

David Alexander

March 24, 2025

When Wendy Williams was just 12 years old, Richard Farley gunned down her half-brother – shooting him in the head…

Sunnyvale School District Begins Search for New Superintendent

Sunnyvale School District Begins Search for New Superintendent

Press Release

March 24, 2025

The Sunnyvale School District Board has begun the process of hiring a new superintendent and wants the public to be…

CUSD Mandarin Immersion Program Celebrates Lunar New Year of the Snake with Gala

CUSD Mandarin Immersion Program Celebrates Lunar New Year of the Snake with Gala

Diane Andrews

March 22, 2025

Learning Mandarin is about culture as well as language for the K – 8 CLIP students at John Muir Elementary…

Stanford Student Journalist Won’t Face Criminal Charges for Coverage of Student Protests

Stanford Student Journalist Won’t Face Criminal Charges for Coverage of Student Protests

Bay City News

March 22, 2025

A Stanford University student journalist who entered a campus building last summer while covering a student protest in support of…

Local Sunnyvale Students Compete at National Robotics Championship

Local Sunnyvale Students Compete at National Robotics Championship

Press Release

March 21, 2025

Baybots (Team #65125), a robotics team from Sunnyvale, has been crowned Champion’s First Place winner at the FIRST LEGO League…

Sunnyvale DPS Chief Ngo Announces Retirement

Sunnyvale DPS Chief Ngo Announces Retirement

Press Release

March 20, 2025

On March 19, the City of Sunnyvale announced the retirement of the Department of Public Safety (DPS) Chief Phan Ngo…

Roberta Jones Junior Theatre Reprises Its Favorite Musical—“The Wizard of  Oz”

Roberta Jones Junior Theatre Reprises Its Favorite Musical—“The Wizard of  Oz”

Diane Andrews

March 20, 2025

At the Mission City Center for Performing Arts (3250 Monroe St.), March 21-23 and March 28-30, Santa Clara’s beloved Roberta…

CalMatters: Bipartisanship is Rare in the California Legislature. Here are the Bills Breaking the Divide

CalMatters: Bipartisanship is Rare in the California Legislature. Here are the Bills Breaking the Divide

CalMatters

March 19, 2025

In these hyper-partisan times, Democrats and Republicans can’t seem to agree on much. That includes the members of the California…

District Attorney Demands Jail Time for Becker

District Attorney Demands Jail Time for Becker

Erika Towne

March 19, 2025

Former Santa Clara City Council Member Anthony Becker will be in court later this week for sentencing in his perjury…

Unexpected Perspectives in Bruins 16-0 Win Over Condors

Unexpected Perspectives in Bruins 16-0 Win Over Condors

Andrew Bensch

March 19, 2025

Perspective can be a powerful, perhaps even, sometimes, a game-changing tool. A 16-0 baseball game typically lends one to believe…

Pomeroy Celebrates Read Across America Day

Pomeroy Celebrates Read Across America Day

Erika Towne

March 18, 2025

From school board and city council members to parents and local firefighters, members of the Pomeroy Elementary School community in…

Silicon Valley Power Employee Salaries Eclipse Neighboring Public Power Companies

Silicon Valley Power Employee Salaries Eclipse Neighboring Public Power Companies

David Alexander

March 18, 2025

Not only does Santa Clara pay its police the second-highest average salary in the state, it has also been offering its utility…

CalMatters: Even in Wet Years, Wells are Still Dry. Why Replenishing California’s Groundwater is Painfully Slow

CalMatters: Even in Wet Years, Wells are Still Dry. Why Replenishing California’s Groundwater is Painfully Slow

CalMatters

March 17, 2025

After abundant rain and moderate snowfall this year in the northern half of the state, California’s largest reservoirs are holding…