The Saratoga Fire District, which has been in control of fire protection services in the city since 1923, is in the midst of contracting those services to the county.

Police in Los Altos are still trying to track down a ring of scammers who robbed an estimated 80 people by stealing their bank card numbers and personal identification codes from a local Arco AM/PM gas station ATM in recent months.

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Santa Clara and San Benito counties added jobs in March even as the unemployment rate ticked upward to 5.5 percent, substantially above where it was a year ago and slightly up for the month.

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Tax evasion charges have been filed against the former chief financial officer of Mercury Interactive, a Silicon Valley company where the once-rampant rigging of stock options led to a $28 million fine - and evidence revealed an e-mail quip about "magic backdating ink.

The Park Avenue Lofts development will move forward without any retail space. San Jose planning officials agreed to drop the commercial component in favor of more housing at the San Jose Planning Director's Hearing Wednesday.

Fire officials are continuing an investigation today into the cause of a fire that burned about 10 acres of privately owned land near the Los Padres National Forest in Monterey County, a forest spokesman said.

Attorney who inherited role overseeing a huge trust gets 8 1/2-years, is ordered to repay the $52 mil he defrauded.

There is an upside to the home sales slump. You can find a place in San Leandro that was $499K now selling for $229K.

The Dread Of Bay Area Spread

Sprawl is closing the gap between cities and surburbs across Northern, Calif. putting a strain on the land. Green Special Section.

Man who fled cops after an apparent suicide try and died in a huge collision early today is a 46-year-old Berkeley resident.

An Emeryville restaurant owner describes her customers being looted in the latest in a string of E. Bay eatery robberies.

In March, unemployment numbers leap as a slowing economy curtails hiring in a broad range of industries.