The downtown San Jose home of Camino Brewing Company, which announced its closing last week, shouldn’t be vacant for very long. That’s the word from Garden City Construction CEO Jim Salata, who owns the building on South First Street where Camino’s brewing operations, taproom and beer garden were located ..read more

LOS GATOS – A Los Gatos man who starred in a real estate reality show was sentenced to jail and ordered to pay back nearly $10 million to his victims after being convicted of real estate fraud, prosecutors said Tuesday.According to Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen's office, 58-year-old Charles "Todd" Hill received a four-year sentence. Hill starred in the HGTV show "Flip It to Win It", which featured teams buying dilapidated homes and fixing them, before selling them for a profit.The show aired in 2014.Prosecutors said Hill was convicted in Sep. 2023 after admitting to grand the ..read more

SAN JOSE — An indoor active entertainment operator, whose parks include trampolines and ziplines, will expand to San Jose, picking a prime space in a major retail center for one of its next venues. Sky Zone has decided to open a new trampoline and activities park in a large ..read more

SAN JOSE — The auctioning of several downtown San Jose condominiums has spawned a widening legal war now that a troubled China-based real estate firm has filed a new lawsuit in the increasingly tangled case. China-based Z&L Properties has filed a lawsuit against winning bidders in an auction last ..read more

Eddie Aubrey, currently head of the Office of Professional Accountability in the Richmond Police Department, was unanimously approved by the San Jose City Council on Tuesday to lead San Jose’s Office of the Independent Police Auditor ..read more

Crackdown on fentanyl in Oakland — detectives from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office zeroed in on a major drug operation early this morning, seizing a significant stash of the lethal narcotic during a pre-dawn raid. In a statement published by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, officials detailed the recovery of over two pounds of fentanyl and more than $14,000 in cold, hard cash ..read more

In recent years, California lawmakers have approved a flurry of legislation aimed at increasing the housing supply and addressing the state’s decades-in-the-making housing crisis. Many of the changes are modest — rather than creating massive apartment towers or sprawling new subdivisions, they are meant to add moderate density in ..read more

To help keep eclipse-viewers safe on April 8, San Jose public libraries are giving away a limited number of specialized glasses this weekend. The San Jose Public Library said solar eclipse glasses will be available at any of its locations during normal operating hours Saturday and Sunday. Those who are ..read more

SAN JOSE — High-profile retailer H&M has exited its site in one of San Jose’s mega malls and will move across the street to the other mega mall in the Bay Area’s largest city. H&M is busy preparing a large store space at San Jose’s Westfield Valley ..read more

Milpitas saw its weekend marred by a cluster of DUI arrests and drug-related infractions, shining a critical light on the ongoing battle against substance misuse. In a release posted to X by Milpitas Police, officers detailed a sequence of events that unfolded with the arrest of a 42-year-old Santa Clara woman on an existing warrant for DUI early Friday morning ..read more