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  • California layoff plans hit 158,700 workers, No. 2 in US

    California-centric layoff plans have hit 158,700 workers so far this year, the second-largest employment cuts nationwide.

    The job reports we usually follow are on hold during the federal government’s shutdown. So, my spreadsheet switched to a long-running tally of layoff news from major corporations, compiled by workplace consultants at Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

    Their latest report covered layoffs announcements by big companies through October in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This study tracks the layoff location based on either the corporate headquarters or the actual sites of the cuts, if mentioned in the layoff news release.

    California-related layoff plans in the first 10 months of 2025 account for 14% of the 1.1 million layoffs announced across the U.S. Challenger expects this year to be the nation’s worst for this layoff yardstick since the Great Recession era, minus 2020’s pandemic-scarred economy.

    Let’s put that 14% share in context. California is the nation’s largest economy. It has 18 million workers, more than any other state, and 11% of the nation’s 159 million jobs.

    Additionally, Golden State businesses comprise 11% of the 500 companies that comprise the high-profile S&P 500 stock index. And 13% of the INC. 5000 ranking of America’s fastest-growing companies hail from California.

    The national layoff hotspot was Washington, D.C., with 303,800. After California came New York, with 81,701, followed by Georgia with 78,049, and Washington state with 77,700.

    As for California’s economic rivals, Texas ranked seventh with 46,400 planned cuts, and Florida ranked ninth with 22,800 planned cuts.

    Who’s cutting

    A handful of industries dominate the list of layoff plans.

    Start with massive government job cuts, primarily in the District of Columbia, as the Trump administration aggressively shrinks the federal payroll.

    Nationwide, Challenger reported that announced layoff plans for all government workers totaled 307,600 in the first 10 months of 2025 – the largest cut in any industry and up 269,900, or 715%, in the past year.

    The next three shrinking industries have deep ties to California.

    Technology had 141,200 cuts announced nationwide, up 20,700 or 17%. Warehousing had 90,400, up 71,500 or 378%. And retail had 88,700 cuts, up 52,500 or 145%.

    Growing cuts

    California-centric layoffs rose by 22,100 in a year from the first 10 months of 2024. That’s the fifth biggest jump and 5% of the nationwide increase of 665,000.

    The largest increase was in D.C., at 269,000, followed by Georgia, with an increase of 60,200, and New Jersey, at 52,700. Florida was No. 8, up 9,800.

    Texas had the largest decline, down 20,600, followed by Rhode Island, down 10,600, and Nevada, down 8,400.

    The California bump looks less egregious on a percentage-point basis, ranking No. 20 with a 16% increase. Nationwide, these cuts grew by 65%.

    The biggest percentage jumps were in Alaska, at 2,346% – yes, it grew almost 25-fold – followed by Maine, up 1,446%, and D.C., up 773%. Florida was No. 12 at 76%.

    The largest dips were in Wyoming, down 99%, followed by Rhode Island, down 90%, and Nevada, down 76%. Texas was No. 34, off 31%.

    Job chill

    The layoffs are further proof of a cooling economy.

    Challenger only tracks layoff plans of big companies. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics follows actual layoffs and discharges, which include firings, at companies of all sizes.

    Through July, the latest numbers available, the BLS reported that 1.3 million Californians had been laid off or discharged, representing a 69,000 increase – a 6% jump – compared with the first seven months of 2024.

    Nationwide, these job cuts totaled 11.4 million in the same timeframe, a 4% increase of 445,000 in a year.

    And the shaky employment picture is why the Federal Reserve has shifted its focus from cooling problematic inflation to supporting the job market. The central bank made two cuts in the past two months in the interest rates it controls.

    Slow hiring

    Challenger also tracks hiring announcements on a national basis. It’s not pretty.

    So far in 2025, big companies have announced plans to hire 488,100, which is 35% lower than 2024 and down 53% from the median hires of the previous nine years.

    And seasonal hiring plans have been modest at many companies that supply the holiday spirit, from retailers to shippers. Expected year-end staffing increases are down 59% in a year.

    Merchants are seeing this wobbly job market help to depress consumer confidence. The Conference Board’s optimism indicators have decreased by 18% statewide and by 8% nationwide over the past year.

    Jonathan Lansner is the business columnist for the Southern California News Group. He can be reached at jlansner@scng.com

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  • San Jose announces AI education program for the public

    San Jose once again is touting its Silicon Valley prominence with the city offering access to artificial intelligence courses and tools to all residents.

    At the GovAI Coalition Summit that began Wednesday in San Jose, Mayor Matt Mahan announced AI for All, a first-of-its-kind collaborative program featuring tech giants Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as the Bay Area Council.

    “The AI revolution is here — and there’s no better place to be a part of it than San Jose,” Mahan said in a news release for the summit. “This first-in-the-nation initiative makes sure everyone from students to seniors can seize the opportunities of this new era and be prepared for the pitfalls. The coming years will determine if AI’s proliferation will drive inequality or opportunity, and we’re not waiting to find out — we’re shaping it for the collective good of humanity.”

    AI for All will consist of a single city portal with free courses, training paths and certifications from leading AI companies, according to the release. The content will come in multiple languages and accessible to businesses, in schools and at home.

    It will also be available to residents without reliable internet access at local libraries and community centers, the city said.

    A committee made up of representatives from the city, Bay Area Council, the participating companies and community partners will oversee the program’s implementation and accessibility, the city said.

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  • Pedestrian dies after being hit near downtown San Jose

    A pedestrian died Monday after being hit by a vehicle south of downtown San Jose, according to police.

    The collision happened at about 5:15 p.m. in the area of South First and Martha streets, police said. The pedestrian was rushed to a local hospital but did not survive.

    Police asked the public to avoid the area.

    An investigation is ongoing.

    Further information wasn’t immediately available.

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  • Delays hamper BART riders after maintenance and police activity

    OAKLAND — BART passengers were experiencing delays Sunday due to maintenance operations and police activity that hampered trips on sections of the Bay Area transit system.

    In one occurrence, a 10-minute delay had occurred Sunday morning at the Coliseum station in Oakland in the direction of Daly City due to police activity. It wasn’t disclosed which law enforcement agency was involved. By 9:30 a.m., that delay had ended.

    BART also reported Sunday morning that a 10-minute delay was underway on the San Francisco line in the direction of Berryessa in San Jose, Antioch, and Millbrae due to overnight track maintenance. By 10 a.m., that advisory had ended.

    In recent months, BART passengers have suffered through mammoth delays and systemwide shutdowns that snarled the regional transit system.

    In May, a fire near the San Leandro station disrupted service on the lines to the Berryessa (San Jose), Dublin and Lake Merritt (Oakland) stations.

    In September, the entire BART system shut down due to a computer failure that halted service through the Transbay Tube for several hours.

    In October, an equipment problem on the track in the Transbay Tube snarled trips through the underwater connection between Oakland and San Francisco for three hours during the morning commute.

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  • Eget, Scudero lead San Jose State to 45-38 win over Hawaii in Tomey Legacy Game

    SAN JOSE – San Jose State defeated Hawaii 45-38 Saturday night behind a career-high 215 receiving yards and two touchdowns from wide receiver Danny Scudero, marking the fifth consecutive Spartans victory in the Dick Tomey Legacy Game.

    Despite trailing 31-14 at halftime, the Rainbow Warriors (6-3) rallied to move within one score with 1:16 left in the game. But their last-ditch onside kick rolled out of bounds and sealed a victory for the Spartans (3-5).

    Both of Scudero’s touchdowns came in very opportune moments.

    The two best passing offenses in the Mountain West were on display as Hawaii started the second half with a 8-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Micah Alejado to running back Landon Sims, making it 31-21 SJSU in the third quarter.

    The following drive, Spartans quarterback Walker Eget hit Scudero for a 62-yard touchdown pass.

    Alejado, though, hit wide receiver Jackson Harris for a 68-yard touchdown to cut SJSU’s lead to 21-14 with 4:07 left in the second quarter.

    Then the following drive, Eget hit Scudero for a 50-yard touchdown to pad the Spartans’ lead to 28-14.

    Then a sack by SJSU linebacker Jordan Pollard sack stifled a Hawaii drive, which led to a Spartans 24-yard field goal by Matthias Brown, securing a three-possession lead at 31-14.

    Eget finished the game 20-for-40 for 458 yards and the two TD passes to Scudero. SJSU wide receivers, Scudero, Leland Smith (113) and Kyri Shoels (109) all went over 100 yards for the second time this season.

    Defensively, Pollard finished with eight tackles, with two tackles for loss, including the sack.

    Hawaii’s Alejado finished the game 31-for-46 for 367 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions.

    Despite trailing 31-14 at halftime, Hawaii made things uneasy in the fourth quarter, closing within 38-35 after a 20-yard touchdown pass from Alejado to Pofele Ashlock Harris with 9:32  left in the fourth quarter.

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  • Macklin Celebrini explains why he likes the Sharks’ new forechecking style

    SAN JOSE – The day after the Sharks were blown out by the Utah Mammoth last month, coach Ryan Warsofsky said his team – desperate to get off to a fast start — was too focused on the result of winning, and not enough on the details of how to make it happen.

    “So we’ve got to worry about – and every coach says it — the process, and the way we have to work and the way we have to play,” Warsofsky said Oct. 18, “and (victories) will come with that.”

    Now the Sharks have a blueprint for what makes them successful.

    Since that 6-3 loss to the Mammoth on Oct. 17 in Salt Lake City, the Sharks have switched from a 1-1-3 alignment to a much faster, more aggressive 2-1-2 forechecking style. The move has allowed the Sharks to utilize their speed and create a few more high-danger scoring chances, while preventing fewer grade-A opportunities for opposing teams at the other end.

    With that has come what everyone in teal wanted from the start — more wins. Since a 0-4-2 start, the Sharks,“You ask any player, they don’t like being under pressure.

    The Sharks are still sporting a modest 3-6-2 record, but the eight points they have after 11 games actually represent their best start to a season since the 2021-22 season, when they began 6-4-1.

    “I think our strength is we’re young and we’ve got some guys with some juice in this room,” Sharks defenseman Mario Ferraro said. “Using our skating and being as aggressive as possible, what we’ve been doing — obviously being smart while we’re doing it — but our aggressive play has really helped us so far.

    “Since we’ve been playing better with that, we haven’t changed a thing.”

    In beating the New Jersey Devils 5-2 on Thursday, forwards Alexander Wennberg and Philipp Kurashev each had a goal and an assist, and goalie Alex Nedeljkovic made 29 saves in his best performance of the season.

    Macklin Celebrini assisted on Will Smith’s second-period goal that gave the Sharks a 4-1 lead and now has five goals and seven assists in a career-long six-game point streak, as the Sharks earned their first win on home ice this season.

    Celebrini now had 17 points in 11 games, becoming just the fifth teenager in the past 15 years to record 17 or more points in a single calendar month. The others were Connor McDavid in February and November 2016, Clayton Keller in March 2018, Andrei Svechnikov in November 2019, and Connor Bedard in March 2024.

    That Celebrini’s hot streak began soon after the Sharks made the change to a less conservative forechecking style probably isn’t a complete coincidence.

    “I think it helps just not sitting back as much, not giving (teams) free entry,” Celebrini said. “Putting a little bit more pressure, turning over more pucks, I think it helps us just get possession.

    “You ask any player, they don’t like being under pressure. So I think the more pace and pressure we can put on the other team’s players or defensemen, it helps us get more possession time.”

    Since a 3-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Oct. 18, a game they controlled for the final two periods, the Sharks have gone 3-3-0, with the three losses by a combined four goals.

    “I think you can see in these last couple of games, we’ve come out pretty strong, come out really fast, gotten the first goal,” said Sharks goalie Alex Nedeljkovic, who made 29 saves Thursday. “We’re in games. There haven’t been a lot of games this year, maybe like one or two, where we didn’t really have it that night, and we didn’t really have a shot.”

    The Sharks’ next few games will offer a stiff test. After Saturday’s game against the Central Division-leading Avalanche, the Sharks face the Atlantic Division-leading Detroit Red Wings on Sunday. That’s followed by games against the improved Seattle Kraken, the Winnipeg Jets, last season’s Presidents’ Trophy winners, and the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers.

    “We’ve definitely taken steps in that process, of what it looks like to win, and what it feels like, what it takes, and how hard you have to work, the details you need to play with,” Warsofsky said. “We still have a ways to go, but our group is definitely taking the teaching and the coaching of what it takes, and our guys are growing it with that as we go.”

    DICKINSON UPDATE

    Sam Dickinson was still with the Sharks as of Friday afternoon, as the team didn’t make any announcement about whether they would keep the rookie defenseman on the NHL roster to the Ontario Hockey League. Dickinson played his ninth game of the season on Thursday and had 14:23 in ice time, all at even strength, as he played on the Sharks’ third defense pair with Shakir Mukhamadullin.

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  • Letters: San Jose animal shelter still turning deaf ear to community

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    San Jose continues to fail to improve animal shelter services to the community.

    A scathing city audit of one year ago has failed to deliver measurable results. The city still fails to provide low-cost public spay and neuter, nor is outreach to rescue groups or trap-neuter-return a priority. The San Jose animal welfare community continues to be ignored.

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  • Deputies fatally shoot armed man during San Jose traffic stop

    SAN JOSE – Deputies with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed a man armed with a knife during a traffic stop Monday evening in San Jose, police said.

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  • 1 dead, 1 critically hurt in 3-car crash in San Jose neighborhood


    A crash involving three vehicles left one person dead and another critically injured in a San Jose neighborhood over the weekend, authorities said.

    The crash happened on Saturday at about 2:35 p.m. on Foxworthy Avenue west of Jarvis Avenue in the southern part of the city’s Willow Glen neighborhood north of Hillsdale Avenue. The San Jose Police Department said in a press release Monday that a man driving a white 2018 GMC Denali was headed east on Foxworthy, a two-lane road divided by a double yellow line, and was approaching Jarvis when he attempted to pass a green 2018 Subaru Forrester on the right. 

    While passing, the GMC collided with the Forrester, causing the GMC to travel into the opposite lane of traffic and crash head-on with a blue 2012 Honda CR-V that was heading east on Foxworthy, police said. The woman who was driving the Honda was pronounced dead at the scene, while the man driving the GMC suffered life-threatening injuries and was listed in critical condition, police said.

    The woman driving the Subaru was not hurt.

    The identity of the Honda driver will be released by the Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner after notifying her family. The crash was San Jose’s 31st fatal collision and the 31st traffic death of 2025.

    Police asked anyone with information about the crash to contact Detective DelliCarpini #4103 of the Police Department’s traffic investigations unit at 4103@sanjoseca.gov or 408-277-4654.

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  • 1 dead, another hospitalized in crash on San Jose’s Foxworthy Avenue


    One driver died and another was hospitalized after a crash on Foxworthy Avenue in San Jose on Saturday afternoon, police said. 

    The collision happened around 2:30 p.m. near Foxworthy Avenue and Jarvis Avenue. 

    Police said the only occupants in the two vehicles were the drivers. One died at the scene and the other was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. 

    Foxworthy Avenue from Meridian Avenue to Jarvis Avenue is expected to be closed for a significant amount of time. 

    It’s unknown what led up to the crash.

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  • San Jose business helps families that might stop getting SNAP benefits

    A family business in San Jose is offering free meals to kids whose families use SNAP benefits.

    The state says around 5.5 million Californians use SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families.

    The owners of Tony & Alba’s Pizza & Pasta in San Jose are preparing to step up for families.

    “We had been talking about it for a couple of weeks now, how are these kids going to eat, what we can do,” said Albert Vallorz, co-owner Tony & Alba’s Pizza & Pasta.

    Diana and Albert Vallorz announced on social media that kids whose families have SNAP cards will be able get free kids meals, and parents who want to eat with them there will get a discount.

    “Without these SNAP benefits, there are going to be a lot of kids who are going to have to do with less,” said Diana, co-owner Tony & Alba’s Pizza & Pasta.

    The need for food assistance is expected to grow as millions prepare to lose SNAP benefits come Nov. 1. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program serves nearly 42 million people each month in the US, allocating money to states on a monthly basis.

    But if the government shutdown continues, the department of agriculture warned there would not be enough funding to pay full SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, in November.

    California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined other state attorneys general in writing a letter to the department of agriculture demanding answers.

    In a statement, Bonta said in part, “SNAP benefits should never be an afterthought – protecting the families who rely on these benefits to keep food on the table must be a priority.”

    Without snap benefits, food banks are expecting to help out more people. This week Governor Gavin Newsom said he was deploying the California National Guard to assist food banks. The governor’s office sent out these images of troops already helping at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank Friday.

    In the Bay Area, Second Harvest says they need donations, not necessarily more volunteers.

    And they worry the National Guard showing up could create more fear in the community.

    “We also anticipate seeing an increase in need and we may need more volunteers out at our distribution sites but we’re also in this moment where having folks in uniform might create some fear at our sites so that is why we don’t envision utilizing them at our distribution sites,” said Leslie Bacho, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley CEO.

    With no deal in sight, the government shutdown enters its 24th day, just as we prepare to enter the holidays.

    That’s why Diana and Albert said it’s important for them to be there for their community at this time.

    “If you’re a family business in the community that supports you, you have to support the community,” said Albert.

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  • San Jose Día de los Muertos festival still sidelined amid immigration fears

    A longtime Día de los Muertos festival in downtown San Jose remains canceled.

    Organizers on Friday said there are several concerns with hosting the Day of the Dead event, including low attendance seen over the past two years and not as many sponsors. Another big reason is a fear immigration agents will show up at Día de San Jose.

    “My heart goes to community members, to institutions who are unable to host their celebrations,” said Jessica Paz-Cedillos, CEO of the School of Arts and Culture in San Jose. “There is a lot of information that we may not know and they had to make a difficulty decision.”

    Paz-Cedillos said her school’s Día de los Muertos event is still going on — a festival on a smaller scale, but still with the same colors and traditions.

    “We work with local businesses who have altars along the local corridor,” Paz-Cedillos said. “We have performances along the corridor.”

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  • Investigators probe in-custody death involving San Jose police

    A man who made contact with police in San Jose suffered a medical emergency and died in custody on Wednesday, the department said.

    Just after 8 a.m., officers were sent to the 400 block of South Buena Vista Avenue on a report of a family disturbance. Someone told police that a physical fight was occurring. Another caller told dispatch that a man at the scene was overdosing on a drug, according to police.

    Officers arrived and found a naked man “acting erratic” and he was detained. According to police, minutes later, the man began having a medical emergency. Paramedics arrived and attempted life-saving measures. The man was taken to the hospital, where he died.

    As per department protocol, the event is being investigated as an in-custody death, the San Jose Police Department said.

    A joint criminal investigation by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office and the San Jose Police Department’s Homicide Unit is underway. The case is being monitored administratively by the San Jose Police Department’s Internal Affairs Unit, the City Attorney’s Office, and the Office of the Independent Police Auditor, authorities said.

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  • Santa Clara County, San Jose propose ‘ICE-free zones’ amid Trump’s immigration crackdown

    As President Donald Trump’s renews his threats to send the National Guard to the Bay Area, Santa Clara County and San Jose are proposing “ICE-free zones” that would prohibit immigration enforcement activity to take place on county or city-owned property.

    It’s the latest act of resistance against the Trump administration from a county where more than 40% of residents are foreign-born and one in five immigrants are undocumented, according to county estimates.

    Since Trump took office in January, the county — and its largest city — have pledged to protect its immigrant communities, filing lawsuits against the federal government over its attempts to restrict funding to ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions and spending on programs like “know your rights” trainings and immigration legal services. San Jose last month also instituted a policy that requires federal agents to remove face coverings while conducting immigration enforcement operations within the city.

    The latest initiative, which stems from the “ICE-free zones” instituted earlier this month in Chicago, is being led by Supervisor Sylvia Arenas from the county and Councilmembers Peter Ortiz, Domingo Candelas and Rosemary Kamei  from the city. Both the county and the city have long held non-cooperation policies that prevent officers from aiding federal agents in immigration enforcement efforts.

    “This is really in the spirit of standing with our community and letting our community know that we want to make sure that we are not somehow inadvertently responsible in helping carry out some of the immigration enforcement activities,” Arenas said at the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday afternoon.

    The supervisor, whose district includes parts of San Jose, Morgan Hill and Gilroy, is asking officials to identify a list of county-owned or controlled properties that could “potentially be used for immigration enforcement staging, processing or surveillance.” The proposal, which was unanimously approved by the board, also wants signage posted on those properties that notifies the public that immigration enforcement activities are barred on the site.

    The San Jose City Council’s rules committee is expected to vote on whether to move its own proposal forward on Wednesday afternoon.

    Ortiz, who represents East San Jose on the City Council, said at a press conference on Tuesday that the effort started with a “simple but powerful idea: that city property, property built and maintained by the people, should only be used for city or county purposes.”

    “When immigrant families see federal agents parked outside of our community centers, it doesn’t just create fear, it creates barriers to education, to healthcare, to housing assistance, to the very services that help families survive in this Valley,” he said. “That’s not who we are as a city, and that’s not what our public spaces have been created for.”

    Similarly, the city proposal authored by Ortiz, Candelas and Kamei asks city officials to compile its own list of owned and operated properties “that are open space with publicly accessible parking lots that could be misused for non-city purposes.”

    The proposals have already garnered support from immigrant rights advocates who maintain that the initiative will help protect the county’s diverse communities.

    Jeremy Barousse, the director of policy at the nonprofit Amigos de Guadalupe, urged the board during the meeting “to pass a strong policy that excludes federal immigration enforcement from using county property to execute their harmful family separation agenda.”

    “This is our community and we must not let malicious federal agents use local government property to violate the constitutional rights and safety of our people,” he said. “Our county is a beautiful place that thrives due to the vibrant contributions of our immigrant communities and we must protect this diversity and our community with a powerful unifying partnership across the county that asserts ‘hands off’ our communities.”

    In the meantime, Santa Clara County is continuing its work to ensure it protects its immigrant communities in the event Trump sends the National Guard to the Bay Area like he recently did in Los Angeles. Deputy County Executive David Campos assured the board that “no one is more prepared” than Santa Clara County.

    “As scary as it is, and we feel a lot of anxiety, we’re actually ahead of the curve in terms of where other Bay Area governments are, and as a region the Bay Area is certainly looking to be more prepared than LA County was,” Campos said. “My objective and the objective of the administration is to make sure we are as prepared as we can be.”

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  • South Bay tech company, East Bay oil titan prep fresh job cutbacks

    South Bay tech company Bill.com and East Bay energy giant Chevron have revealed plans for new rounds of job cuts that are poised to displace well over 100 workers in the Bay Area, filings with the state government show.

    The layoffs are a reminder that job cuts in the tech industry have yet to run their course, as a wide range of tech companies continue to reveal their plans to trim staffing levels in the region.

    Bill.com logo on the tech company’s office building at 6220 America Center Drive in north San Jose. (Google Maps)

    Chevron, which has moved its headquarters from San Ramon to Houston in another example of the corporate exodus from California to Texas, revealed prior layoffs that erased 600 jobs in the Bay Area.

    According to WARN notices the companies sent to the state Employment Development Department, the layoffs include:

    — Bill is cutting 84 jobs in North San Jose at the company’s headquarters complex. These layoffs are expected to take effect on Dec. 15, the WARN letter to the EDD shows.

    — Chevron is eliminating 100 jobs in San Ramon, an East Bay city where the energy giant had once based its headquarters, according to the WARN letter. These most recent cutbacks are due to occur on Oct. 23. Chevron is also cutting 75 jobs in the Kern County city of Bakersfield.

    Bill and Chevron both stated that the layoffs would be permanent.

    “We are providing severance pay, medical continuation coverage, access to education and training resources, and outplacement assistance,” Henry Perea, Chevron’s manager of state government affairs, wrote in the WARN letter to the EDD.

     

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  • Warsofsky shoulders responsibility as Sharks seek first win: ‘It’s on me’

    SAN JOSE – Macklin Celebrini stood inside the San Jose Sharks dressing room and seemed to be in disbelief that he and his teammates were going through this again. Outside the room, coach Ryan Warsofsky, who has now been through four straight agonizingly slow starts with the team, facetiously said he’d give up one of his two young children for a win right now.

    “Trust me, it sucks,” Warsofsky said Saturday night. “I keep telling myself, there’s a reason why this keeps happening.”

    A Sharks season that was hoped to be a little bit better than the previous few has so far turned out to be anything but, as San Jose enters a challenging four-game road trip this week as the NHL’s last remaining winless team.

    The Sharks fell to 0-3-2 with a 3-0 loss to Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night at SAP Center. Responding after poor performances against the Carolina Hurricanes and Utah Mammoth earlier in the week, the Sharks were the better team for the final two periods as they established a forecheck, outchanced the Penguins, and kept Pittsburgh’s shots on goal to a minimum.

    Still, the Sharks were unable to beat Penguins goalie Tristan Jarry, who made 31 saves, as they were shut out for the first time this season. Sharks goalie Alex Nedeljkovic made 18 saves in a frenetic first period, but Crosby scored a second-period goal on a tipped shot, and Anthony Mantha and Evgeni Malkin both scored in the third, with Malkin’s being an empty-netter, to hand San Jose its third straight regulation-time loss.

    “The only way we’re going to get those bounces is if we keep working for them. They’re not just going to happen,” Nedeljkovic said. “We have to earn those bounces. And if we play like we did tonight, more times than not, coming up, we’ll start getting some.”

    While the goaltending took a step forward Saturday, the Sharks have still managed just two even-strength goals in their last three games.

    “I think we have a really tight group, and it’s just hard,” Celebrini said, “especially when you play some good games, do some good things, and it just feels like it hasn’t really kind of connected yet.”

    The Sharks begin a four-game road trip on Tuesday against Matthew Schaefer, the No. 1 overall pick in June’s NHL Draft, and the New York Islanders. That’s followed by games against the New York Rangers on Thursday, the New Jersey Devils on Friday, and the Minnesota Wild on Sunday.

    The Sharks were 0-5-0 to begin the 2022-23 season, started 0-10-1 in 2023-24, and 0-7-2 last year. Warsofsky has unfortunately been a part of every dismal start, as he was an assistant under David Quinn from 2022 to 2024 before he was named the Sharks’ head coach.

    This year’s team is believed to be better than any of the previous three. Now’s the time to show proof.

    “We’re not going to quit,” Warsofsky said. “We’re five games into this thing. What’s happened has happened, and we’ve got to work. I’ve got to get this team to improve and individuals to improve. It’s on me.”

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  • San Jose resident worried about streetlights being out on area of Hwy. 680

    Streetlights on a stretch of Highway 680 in east San Jose are still out.

    “It’s not only the lights lighting the road but also the lights lighting the actual signs for the exits that are out, and those signs haven’t been lit up for months,” said Kamille Reddy, who drives this stretch often.

    Caltrans said it was the work of thieves who were stealing the wire from its pull boxes along the road – but seven months later, the lights are out again.

    Caltrans reports they were repaired in the spring but were recently vandalized.

    Reddy says she never noticed them working after the first time.

    In an email sent to NBC Bay Area Friday, Caltrans said, “Based on what our Caltrans Maintenance crews have found, it has been noted that yes, someone has taken out the aluminum from the service and pull boxes which has caused an outage. We are currently working on a solution.”

    Reddy worries not having the lights on will cause a crash.

    “If they can fix it before it starts getting shorter daylight hours, that would be best because there are more people on the road, people are returning to the offices, coming home late,” Reddy said.

    Wire thefts are not new in San Jose or in California; in fact, the city has an interactive map showing reported streetlights that are out because of wire theft, and the ones that have been fixed.

    NBC Bay Area asked Caltrans if this is an ongoing problem on its highways or just isolated to this area but hasn’t heard back.

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  • Bay FC’s parent organization adds 2 hires, including former England women’s GM

    Bay FC’s brand is getting bigger, and it’s starting to reach beyond the limits of the second-year National Women’s Soccer League club itself.

    Bay Collective, an organization founded in January by Bay FC owners Sixth Street as a parent company of sorts, has hired two new staffers to build out its front office, the club told the Bay Area News Group.

    Anja van Ginhoven joins as the director of global women’s football operations at Sixth Street, and Patricia González joins as the global sporting director of Bay Collective.

    The two new voices are joining from the English Football Association and Atlético Madrid, respectively, and will be working under Bay Collective CEO Kay Cossington’s leadership to drive the next phase of the Bay Collective’s strategy.

    The moves come as Bay FC enters a state of transition with two games remaining in the regular season. Founding Bay FC CEO Brady Stewart already left her role in September, and head coach Albertin Montoya will be stepping down from his role at the end of the season.

    “Patricia and Anja bring deep expertise and proven success at the highest levels within global women’s football,” Cossington said in a statement. “They have lived and breathed women’s football for the better part of their lives. Their experience and leadership will be instrumental in driving our organization to excel, fostering environments both on and off the pitch where players and staff can reach their full potential. They bring immense value to us, and their unrivalled knowledge of women’s football makes Bay Collective unique as we seek to execute the next phase of our strategy. I am thrilled for them to come on board.”

    In the role as the director of global women’s football operations, van Ginhoven will be responsible for optimizing the platform’s soccer-related activities and operations, the club said. Her role will involve shaping the direction for football governance, operations, performance enhancement and facility development.

    Van Ginhoven was previously the general manager of the English women’s national team for the past four years. She previously worked as general manager and communications manager for the Dutch women’s national team.

    González will oversee and drive the sporting strategy for all clubs within Bay Collective and will work closely with club managers, coaches, and senior leadership to leverage data and analytics and position each club for success on and off the pitch, the club said. In her previous role as the women’s technical director of Atlético Madrid, she oversaw the scouting strategy and helped shape the club’s high-performance culture.

    González, a former player, has also worked for FIFA and led its talent development unit.

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  • San Jose Sharks place two defensemen on waivers

    SAN JOSE – The San Jose Sharks placed defensemen Jack Thompson and Lucas Carlsson on waivers on Sunday.

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  • Family running San Jose jewelry store tries to recover after smash-and-grab, brutal assault

    For the family that runs Kim Hung Jewelry in San Jose, Sep. 5 is a day they’ll never forget.

    What was once a thriving shop now sits boarded up, a reminder of the smash-and-grab robbery that changed everything. The family said 10 people stormed their San Jose store, after a stolen Jeep rammed into the storefront.

    Surveillance video shows the suspects smashing display cases and grabbing whatever they could before fleeing. During the chaos, the family’s 88-year-old uncle, the man who built and ran the business, was shoved to the ground.

    “It’s very sudden, and it’s very panicked,” said one family member, who agreed to speak but asked not to share her name. “You cannot imagine this happening to you.”

    Since then, the store has been closed its entrance covered with plywood and steel gates. The family said they’re still paying rent and expenses while they wait for the insurance process to move forward.

    “The business is closed. But we still pay rent. We still pay for everything in the store. You can’t not pay, right?” she said.

    Her uncle remains at home recovering. Family members have urged him not to return once the shop reopens, worried the trauma runs deeper than the visible damage.

    “His health is getting better, but he’s still traumatized,” she said.

    As for the investigation, San Jose police say they’ve made progress. On Oct. 3, seven people between the ages of 18 and 23 were arrested from across the Bay Area, including Dublin, Pacifica, San Jose, and Antioch. This week, an eighth suspect was arrested in Oakland.

    (Clockwise from top left) Angel Herrera, Toddisha Mayfield, Zakhari Blue-Gordon, Tom Donegan, Jacques Samuel, Cisco Lutu, Amari Green and Julian Gacutan, who are suspected in a Sep. 5, 2025 smash-and-grab robbery at Kim Hung Jewelry in San Jose.

    San Jose Police Department


    Police said they are still searching for at least two more suspects connected to the case.

    For the family, the arrests bring only limited comfort. The store remains shuttered… the damage still visible, the pain still raw.

    “When I look at it, I just get more sad,” she said. “I get more frustrated, and I just ask, why?”

    The family says their hope is to reopen in the next few months. Until then, they say they’ll keep speaking out not for attention, but to remind others that even when the cameras leave and the crime tape comes down, the healing takes much longer.

    “So please,” she said. “Don’t do it. Go to school. Have a successful life. This is not a life.”

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