Spending priorities | Taxing consumers | Health care. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for May 25, 2025.

A new wildfire was reported today at 3:44 p.m. in Santa Clara County. Guadalupe Fire has been burning on private land. At ...

Four out of five of California’s most-destructive wildfires, and nine of the 10 largest, have occurred since 2017.

It continued last year with the delayed rollout of a new federal financial-aid form. Many expected 2025 to mark a return to ...

The pile burning project, called Bailey Vmp Broadcast Burn, was initiated 12:57 p.m. Jan. 2 in Santa Clara County. After ...

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors approved nearly $29 million in funding for affordable housing projects in San ...

Fremont is proud to be known as the Foundry of Silicon Valley, and it is making huge strides to cement that reputation. Join ...

The county joins other San Francisco Bay Area jurisdictions in approving the "smoke-sniffing" devices to shore up the ...

Despite San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s claim his policy to arrest homeless people for refusing shelter is meant to connect them ...

Santa Clara County approved nearly $29 million for five affordable housing projects in San Jose, creating 612 units and ...

Northern California’s Santa Clara County has approved $28.7 million in funding for affordable housing in San Jose, reports ...

An off-duty deputy, Jamey Hummer, assisted a woman who had a seizure and crashed her car, with the help of Doug Feliciano.