With California short of nearly half a million affordable homes and a slew of projects stalled amid adverse market conditions, Sen. Dave Cortese has proposed a bill that would allow the state to use its credit to insure construction and permanent loans for multifamily housing, giving developers access to more favorable interest terms and letting them build more quickly and easily.
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Parents, teachers and students in San Jose were up early Tuesday for an annual bus ride to Sacramento in the name of education.
Hundreds of educators are at the State Capitol on Tuesday as a part of the 22nd annual Sacramento Bus Trip for Education.
Teachers arrived in buses from San Jose. View the full story here.
A group of Bay Area special education students are left out from a milestone moment of college - graduation.
On Friday, Cal State East Bay held their first of several commencements for the weekend. View the full story here.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is facing a $12 billion deficit that Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to help close by freezing enrollment in a state-funded health care program for immigrants living in California without legal status.
San Jose leaders want major retailers to take a larger role in retrieving abandoned shopping carts that end up in the city’s most blighted areas.
Fed up with the thousands of abandoned shopping carts dumped on city streets and in its waterways, San Jose is moving ahead with new regulations and a cart retrieval pilot program to solve the longstanding problem.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Abandoned shopping carts in San Jose cost the city time and money.
This month, the city is rolling out new programs to address the issue.