Santa Clara News

Like dieters nibbling dessert as New Year's resolutions become more distant, Santa Clara Valley residents' water conservation efforts have weakened with each passing month this year.

After weeks of searching in vain for the H1N1 flu vaccine for her two children, Alisa Yaffa says she'll be lining up early Saturday morning for the county's first public vaccination clinic.

A California State University, Sacramento student accused of beating to death his roommate has been charged with murder and assaulting a peace officer.

Share + Nov 6, 2009 9:53 am US/Pacific SAN JOSE Health officials are holding free H1N1 flu vaccinations throughout the Bay Area Saturday, but the vaccines will only be available for people at the highest risk for illness from the virus.

November 6, 2009, 10:47 AM - InfoWorld - JavaScript , the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, told InfoWorld.

Santa Clara County will pay $800,000 to the father of a bicyclist who was killed when a deputy fell asleep while driving his patrol car.

Share + Comments Nov 5, 2009 1:17 pm US/Pacific SAN JOSE 1 of 1 Eduardo Cristobal was arrested in connection with the shooting of a 12-year-old and the stabbing of a 13-year-old on Halloween night in San Jose.

Graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. said consumer demand is healthy and improving as it reported a 74 percent jump in third-quarter profit.

November 3, 2009, 06:40 PM - InfoWorld - Development of HTML 5, the highly touted upgrade to the language of the Web, is progressing but still faces obstacles, including lack of a standard video codec, said an official of the World Wide Web Consortium at a gathering on Tuesday.

Sybase is extending its Afaria mobile-device management platform and database software to the Apple iPhone, taking advantage of new enterprise features in Version 3.1 of the iPhone's software to give IT departments more control and capabilities on the popular handset.

Yahoo is debuting on Monday an open source version of its Traffic Server software, which serves as a high-performance application server for cloud computing services.

A state watchdog group says elder abuse may be underreported because of budget cuts to programs aimed at ensuring the safety of California seniors, and confused interpretations of state and federal law.

One day after the Mercury News reported that a popular Wilcox High School custodian was being fired by Santa Clara's school district for recruiting students as models, hundreds of current and former students began organizing in support of Joe Miller.

Q: I've seen Fremont police cars sitting alongside Interstate 880, apparently watching for speeders.

Santa Clara County officials announced Wednesday that fewer residents will be able to receive the H1N1 vaccine due to a lower distribution of doses than expected.

The Santa Clara City Council accepted the resignation of City Attorney Helene Leichter effective Jan.

The district attorney in Santa Clara County is under fire for helping the client of a political supporter.

Pharmacy manager Brian Henzig, gives a flu shot to returning customers May Chung, at the Safeway Pharmacy in Milpitas, Calif.

Santa Clara is the largest county in Northern California but at the bottom of the list when it comes to getting the swine flu vaccine.

Students at California State University, Sacramento will hold a candlelight memorial Wednesday night to honor a student from Santa Clara who was murdered in his dorm room last week.