Alviso News

Video was just released on Wednesday that police hope will help catch a hit and run driver.

1300 block Winchester Boulevard, 7:57 p.m. Monday A person robbed a business at gunpoint.

Schools debut Latino achievement awards Latino students and their families excitedly entered the Milpitas High School auditorium on Oct.

The Santa Clara County Public Health Department has announced several additional H1N1 vaccine clinics for the upcoming weekend.

North Valley realestate includes the communities of Berryessa and Alviso, and sometimes the incorporated city of Milpitas.

"Drawbridge is an abandoned town on the outskirts of San Jose and is slowly sinking into the sloughs of San Francisco Bay.

ONE might wonder why a sewer plant requires a "charm offensive" but the facility that treats Milpitas' sewage has been touring folks through, doing surveys to find out public opinion, and generally doing outreach.

ONE might wonder why a sewer plant requires a "charm offensive" but the facility that treats Milpitas' sewage has been touring folks through, doing surveys to find out public opinion, and generally doing outreach.

Every now and then, our government allows elected officials to demonstrate to the public just how little they have learned.

Despite a recent grand jury report recommending that funding for a facility in the northern part of the county be halted, the Santa Clara Valley Water District board of directors today will take up a vote on whether or not to approve the $1.4-million project.

If the world can be seen in a grain of sand, as poet William Blake wrote, just imagine the inner life of a ditch.

The water that flows through creeks in Santa Clara County is all natural, providing habitat for fish and birds.

After seven years since initial talks to construct another education center in Alviso, members from the Santa Clara Valley Water District are on schedule to review necessary work to move plans forward for the Gold Street Education Center.

For Conrad Egan, having drawing implements at his disposal has long been important as his interest in art has developed.

In a highly critical report Wednesday accusing the Santa Clara Valley Water District of overspending and poor financial management, a civil grand jury found that the agency lacks oversight, transparency and accountability.

A police-led excavation in Alviso has turned up possible new evidence - but no human remains - related to the 1991 disappearance and suspected murder of a Los Altos prostitute, according to a source close to the investigation.

Los Altos police are leading the search for evidence in an Alviso neighborhood that has included heavy machinery and large numbers of criminalists.

Los Altos police have been seen at the site of an around-the-clock excavation in an unincorporated part of San Jose, fueling speculation the dig is related to a murder 20 years ago where the body was never found.

A plump brown tadpole stirred. "We saw its tail first!" she says proudly. "We find all kinds of stuff here." As proof, she reached into the water and pulled out a red claw, all that remained of a crawfish long gone.

A mystery is unfolding in the South Bay where an excavation is under way that some speculate may be linked to a homicide investigation that's almost two decades old.