4+ week, 10+ hour ago (321+ words) The ocean takes center stage during the king tides, predicted to arrive in Santa Cruz Wednesday through Friday, and then again Dec. 4-6 and Jan. 1-3. Tides are familiar to anyone who spends time by the sea. Simply put, "Tides are bulges of water that the Earth rotates under," says Serena B. Lee, a physical oceanographer at California Polytechnic State University. King tides are the extreme version, occurring only a few times a year when the sun, moon and earth align, intensifying gravitational pull and driving water higher than usual. For researchers like Lee, these events are golden opportunities. Although tides are predictable, they remain under-monitored along much of the California coast, including Santa Cruz. Lee and her team are developing low-cost tidal gauges to track water levels in these gaps, especially during king tides, when extreme highs mirror the levels scientists expect…...

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2+ week, 16+ hour ago (540+ words) SAN JOSE " Amazon is pushing ahead with a big new San Jose distribution hub where the tech titan is poised to employ several hundred workers to handle the late stages of package deliveries. The tech titan will build its distribution complex at 1605 South Seventh St. in San Jose, documents on file with city planners show. The proposed development site is a short distance from the city's downtown. This proposal has emerged about five years after Amazon bought an industrial site at the corner of South Seventh Street and East Alma Avenue, where the e-commerce giant intends to develop the distribution hub. In 2020, the tech titan paid $59.3 million for the 17.8-acre site, documents on file with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office show. Seattle-based Amazon expects to hire 600 people to work at the site. However, the maximum number of employees at…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago (627+ words) SAN JOSE " The first power projects in PG&E's pipeline to serve data centers could appear on the grid as soon as next year, despite some hints of softening demand, as the utility titan races to meet the tech industry's hunger for the data hubs. PG&E is in the final engineering stages for electricity projects that would produce a combined 1.6 gigawatts of energy to serve data centers in the South Bay, said Mike Medeiros, PG&E vice president of strategic commercial solutions, during a meeting hosted by the San Jose Chamber of Commerce this week. Oakland-based PG&E is scouting for opportunities to connect data centers to electricity supplies because large energy users can take on a greater share of the fixed costs of operating and maintaining the electric grid. "We see these projects as a great opportunity," Medeiros…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (85+ words) Two waves of rain added up to 3 inches this week for the wettest parts of the Bay Area. Two waves of rain added up to 3 inches this week for the wettest parts of the Bay Area. Below are the rainfall totals from late Saturday, Nov. 15, through Thursday, Nov. 20. The National Weather Service figures are raw numbers, meaning they haven't been quality-checked for accuracy. After Thursday's rain, the National Weather Service forecast dry weather for at least a week....

3+ week, 5+ day ago (844+ words) In an economic boon for the city, a massive plot of empty fields near the regional wastewater plant in North San Jose could become a new data center and advanced manufacturing campus, potentially infusing the city's coffers with tens of millions of dollars annually. San Jose plans to enter negotiations with Prologis, the world's largest developer and owner of logistics real estate, to develop the 159 acres of economic lands bounded by Los Esteros Energy Center to the east, Artesian Slough to the west, Highway 237 to the south, and the Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center to the north. Prologis' proposal " dubbed the Sustainable Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing (STEM) Park " includes four 99MW data centers, totaling 1.68 million square feet and four buildings for advanced manufacturing. While the city received several proposals from credible firms, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said Prologis' vision…...

4+ hour, 34+ min ago (798+ words) A major fire in January at one of the world's largest battery storage plants in Moss Landing showered 55,000 pounds of toxic metals across the landscape within a mile of the plant, a new scientific study has found. "It was like a dust," said Ivano Aiello, a marine geology professor at Moss Landing Marine Labs who led the soils testing. "That's what it was. A metal dust. It was like sugar dusting on a cake." "Metals came from the fire," Aiello said. "There's no doubt about that. They traveled. They are tiny. The smoke can travel really far. They can go everywhere, including your lungs. People who were breathing that air were breathing the air with metals." The dramatic fire at the 750-megawatt battery plant began on Jan. 16 and burned for two days. It caused the evacuation of 1,200 local residents and…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago (181+ words) San Jose State's Steve Chavez-Soto (15) runs for a touchdown against Air Force in the fourth quarter of their game at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. Air Force defeated San Jose State 26-16. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group) SAN JOSE STATE AT NEVADA Records: San Jose State (3-6, 2-3 Mountain West); Nevada (1-8, 0-5 MW) TV: CBS Sports Network Radio: 860 AM KTRB Series History: Nevada leads series 19-8; SJSU is 1-12 all-time in Reno [Mailbag: Grading the Pac-12s media rights deals, Big Ten expansion, UCLA and SoFi, Sagapoluteles future and more] [Coach John Beam, beloved staple of Oakland sports, dies from gunshot wound] [Recruiting roundup: West Coast exodus, Washington State stays hot, ASUs big visits and UW raids Oregon] Recruiting roundup: West Coast exodus, WSU stays hot, ASUs big weekend [Suspect arrested in fatal shooting of legendary Oakland, "Last Chance…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago (556+ words) Los Gatos' Hudson Schrader (5), Los Gatos' Devonte Troutt (22), and Los Gatos' Gavin Jordan (12) celebrate against Menlo School during the second quarter at Menlo School in Atherton, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group) It's football playoff time in the Bay Area. After 11 weekends of regular season action, the page has turned to the postseason. The Bay Area News Group crew has picked 15 games for the opening weekend of the playoffs, a list that includes Open/Division I matchups between St. Francis and Los Gatos and Liberty and Pittsburg, Division II clashes between Wilcox and Sacred Heart Cathedral and Amador Valley and Monte Vista and more. Christian Babcock leads our all-in-fun picks competition by two games over Darren Sabedra. Babcock and Glenn Reeves " filling in for Mike Lefkow " each went 13-2 last week. The Reeves/Lefkow team is six…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago (189+ words) James Logan head coach Matthew Guzman huddles with her players before their game against Washington High at Washington High School in Fremont, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) Bay Area News Group girls volleyball Top 15 (Mercury News & East Bay Times) No. 1 ARCHBISHOP MITTY (33-3) Last week: Beat Redwood 3-0, Folsom 3-0 Up next: Tuesday vs. Rocklin, 6 p.m. No. 2 ST. FRANCIS (19-12) Last week: Lost 3-0 to Rocklin Up next: Season end No. 3 JAMES LOGAN (29-8) Last week: Beat Carondelet 3-1, Del Oro 3-2, Buchanan 3-2 Up next: Tuesday at Woodcreek, 6 p.m. No. 4 ST. IGNATIUS (24-11) Last week: Lost 3-0 to Branson No. 5 CAMPOLINDO (27-9) Last week: Beat Sacred Heart Prep 3-2, lost 3-2 to Buchanan No. 6 VALLEY CHRISTIAN (19-9) Last week: Beat Monte Vista 3-0, lost 3-0 to Clovis No. 7 SAN RAMON VALLEY (26-11) Last week: Beat Oak Ridge 3-2, lost 3-0 to Woodcreek No. 8 MONTE VISTA (27-11)...