Santa Fe, N.M. – Legislation to improve property tax exemptions for military veterans is now headed to the House Floor after unanimously passing the House Taxation and Revenue Committee today.

The Low-Income Rental Housing Property Tax Exemption or LIRHPTE program has been a tool for getting affordable housing built ...

A fight over fire response in Santa Clara County has sparked threats of service disruptions and put firefighter jobs in flux.

Some Santa Clara County leaders are looking to ban artificial turf as they believe natural grass fields are physically and ...

including Berkeley and Santa Clara County, have approved local housing bonds to pay for new below-market-rate homes. The proposal for Santa Cruz is different. Instead of borrowing a lump sum, the city ...

and your county has an assessment ratio of 80% and a tax rate of 1%, your tax bill would be $3,200 ([$400,000 × .80] × .01). In general, there are two ways to pay your property tax bill ...

As another round of wild Santa Ana winds threatens Southern California ... the most devastating fires in the history of Los Angeles County. The National Weather Service said powerful winds will ...

Yankees icon Mariano Rivera and his wife Clara covered up the sexual abuse ... a legal complaint was filed in the Supreme Court of Westchester County accusing the Riveras of being negligent ...

The County of Santa Clara and HCA Healthcare have reached a definitive agreement in which the county will purchase Regional Medical Center (RMC) for $150 million. The two parties have signed an Asset ...

The Santa Cruz County Association of Realtors’ unexpected opposition throws shade over the proposed Workforce Housing Solutions Act, an affordable housing tax measure designed to raise $5 million ...

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Roughly 82,400 residents remain under evacuation orders or warnings across Los Angeles County. The good news ... up tall dry grass and brush in the Santa Clara riverbed in Ventura.