Despite public pushback, Santa Clara County’s south and central fire districts will merge — a move county officials assert saves fire service in the south county from failure, even as some ...

A Santa Clara County commission will hold a hearing on May 7 to receive written protests regarding a proposal to dissolve the ...

The shothole borer is a small beetle that can kill an entire tree by boring round holes the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen into a tree’s bark. A beetle is shown in an entry hole above.