San Jose Spotlight

3 days ago | localnewsmatters.org | Vicente Vera |San Jose Spotlight

SAN JOSE HAS FINALIZED the removal of a farmhouse once home to World War II Japanese internment camp survivors to make way for a huge housing development — and one official isn’t happy about it. The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a parkland agreement with Hanover Company, the developer of a 1,472-multi-family housing complex, which will include a 2.5-acre park and plaza at 0 Seely Ave. in North San Jose. The park was the last piece of the proposal needing approval.

4 days ago | localnewsmatters.org | Robert Eliason |San Jose Spotlight

FOR THE LAST 54 YEARS, The Happy Hound in Los Gatos has served a menu of classic American diner fare: assorted hamburgers, hot dogs and milkshakes, with fries and onion rings as sides. It’s a formula that works, as attested by the loyalty of longtime customers such as Gary Snyder, who said he only needs to wave his hand to workers at the counter to place his regular order of two mustard dogs. “I’ve been coming here for over 40 years,” he told San José Spotlight.

5 days ago | localnewsmatters.org | Annalise Freimarck |San Jose Spotlight

THE SECOND PHASE of one of Los Gatos’ largest and most controversial development projects is one step closer to a vote after years of delays and revisions. The Los Gatos Planning Commission began discussing phase two of the North 40 project Wednesday, which includes 450 homes and more than 15,000 square feet of retail space along Los Gatos Boulevard and Burton Road.

6 days ago | localnewsmatters.org | Brandon Pho |San Jose Spotlight

SAN JOSE FIREFIGHTERS raised internal alarms in 2023 about addictive painkillers that went missing from their paramedic drug inventories, and gave morphine from tampered vials to patients with traumatic injuries, according to email records obtained by San José Spotlight. The emails indicate Fire Chief Robert Sapien and city leaders knew about a firefighter drug theft crisis more than a year before disclosing it to the public last month, following the April 16 arrest of Fire Capt.

1 week ago | localnewsmatters.org | Joyce Chu |San Jose Spotlight

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S latest attack on housing comes as he proposes major overhauls to rental assistance programs meant to help people from falling into homelessness. In an outline of the Trump administration’s budget request released Friday, the president wants to slash the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by 44%, or $33.5 billion. The most significant cuts include reducing funding for federal housing voucher programs by more than $26 billion.