Santa Clara County, Santa Clara and Cupertino Reporter
Grace Hase
Grace Hase covers Santa Clara County, Santa Clara and Cupertino for The Mercury News. She is a lifelong Bay Area resident and graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with degrees in investigative reporting and political science. Before joining the Bay Area News Group she covered San Jose City Hall, housing, transportation and the COVID-19 pandemic for Metro Silicon Valley/San Jose Inside.
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First Lady Jill Biden delivers remarks at Atherton fundraiser during APEC week
Tickets for the event ran from $250 to $10,000.
New $22.3 million Campbell library breaks ground
The new Campbell Library is expected to open in summer 2025.
Fremont: One killed, another injured in Sunday afternoon shooting
The shooting occurred on the 34000 block of Fremont Boulevard.
‘It’s everything to me’: Santa Clara County celebrates the purchase of Homeless Veterans Emergency Housing Facility
The facility has served more than 6,000 veterans since 2009.
VTA purchases $76 million tunnel boring machine for BART’s San Jose extension
The machine will take three to four years to dig a nearly five-mile-long, 54-foot in diameter tunnel.
Santa Clara moves closer to letting voters decide whether to change the police chief and city clerk from elected to appointed roles
The council is eyeing the March 2024 election for the ballot measures.
A non-profit wants to sell one of its group homes. Cupertino won’t allow it.
PACE closed the home in June after operating it at a loss for several years. A contract with the city requires them to maintain the house as affordable housing for...
Santa Clara County could see a sales tax increase in the next five years
SB 335 allows the county to put a measure on the ballot to increase the sales tax.
Half Moon Bay: 49-year-old man arrested for elder abuse wanted to ‘kill his father by ripping his heart out of his chest’
The incident occurred on Elderberry Road.
Stanford campus hit-and-run investigated as hate crime after Muslim student struck, injured
The driver reportedly yelled “f*** you and your people” after striking an Arab Muslim student.