Alviso News

Doubling their efforts from last year, Milpitas-based Duran and Venables Inc. collected almost 4,000 pounds of food and other goods from their employees, vendors and the community to benefit the Milpitas Food ...

Charlie Everett portrait taken on Sept. 30, 2008. Everett, 86, of Milpitas, is a master carpenter who turned his talents to totem poles after he retired.

A charter school to help under-achieving students excel has opened in North San Jose.

New age music, sometimes even a whiff of incense, floats from the wood-paneled artist's studio next to a bank of holding cells and a wall of weapon lockers in the basement of the San Jose police department.

Future improvements and new grants to help renovate the historic but dilapidated Jose Maria Alviso Adobe have been approved by city leaders.

Police say a homeless San Jose man killed his friend and buried him in a shallow grave near Alviso, and that the suspected killer spent the next four months cashing the dead man's Social Security checks to buy ...

Milpitas Unified School District Board of Education member Carmen Montano decided not seek re-election to the local board in the Nov.

A small South Bay community finally has its first middle school and Tuesday was the first day of classes at the new Downtown College Preparatory School in Alviso.

One of 200 cats at a former horse ranch in San Jose that will have to be euthanized if a home cannot be found for it.

If you're of a certain age - OK, don't stand up at once - chances are that you were required to read Jack London's masterpiece, "The Call of the Wild," in the seventh grade.

I N 1980, San Jose carved itself up into what's often lambasted as the "mini-mayor system," a fragmented balkanization of 10 jagged, haphazard regions represented by 10 councilmembers with their own individual ...

San Jose's City Council and developers reached an agreement Tuesday that advances a plan to build 32,000 homes and create 83,000 jobs in the area.

Alviso sits at the foot of San Francisco Bay, where Coyote Creek and the Guadalupe River wind through sloughs on their way to the sea.

Alviso sits at the foot of San Francisco Bay, where Coyote Creek and the Guadalupe River wind through sloughs on their way to the sea.

Dick Santos was only 11 years old, but he still vividly remembers when flood waters raged out of the Guadalupe River toward his family's home in Alviso.

The Santa Clara Valley Water District today extended the contract of its interim CEO, continuing a relationship in which she will work part-time and receive $432,000 this year by drawing both a state government ...

A 43-year-old man suffered head injuries and a compound fracture of his right arm Monday night when he was struck by a commuter train passing through an area near Drawbridge, an abandoned town in the marshlands ...

Albert Way, 3:12 a.m. June 27 A man and woman acting "suspicious" in a vehicle were determined to be under the influence.

For a journalist, the beauty of the Santa Clara Valley Water District - the Golden Spigot - is that its leaders never learn their lessons.

The ballots are in, and so are the winners. A couple of weeks ago, I asked readers how they might while away an hour or two without BlackBerries, the Internet or expenses of more than $15. And as summer begins ...