Reid-Hillview Airport

Little leaguers in East San Jose will be moved to a new home after a study found lead contamination in the area where they have been playing.

Little leaguers in East San Jose will be moved to a new home after a study found lead contamination in the area where they have been playing. Stephanie Magallon reports.

Santa Clara County supervisors unanimously approved a measure Tuesday to close Reid-Hillview Airport, two weeks after the release of a study that found elevated lead levels in children from the neighborhoods near the airport in East San Jose.

Saying the health and future of children in nearby neighborhoods is at risk, activists and educators called for the closure of Reid-Hillview Airport in East San Jose as they canvassed the area Saturday.

Children living near East San Jose’s Reid-Hillview Airport are experiencing blood lead levels similar to those of children in Flint, Michigan, during the peak of its water crisis in the previous decade, a new study commissioned by Santa Clara County revealed.

The airport in San Jose is proving to be a key strategic place in helping battle wildfires.

Reid-Hillview Airport is playing a big role on how firefighters battle the wildfires. Damian Trujillo reports.

A day after a small plane crashed in the ocean off the coast of Half Moon Bay, the pilot found himself explaining what he believed happened and why it was not a stunt.

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday to either accept grant funding for the 80-year-old Reid-Hillview Airport or leave it vulnerable to closure, the county reported.

Federal and local investigators on Monday were trying to piece together the events that ended with a small plane crashing into a San Jose home Sunday.

Three people were injured Sunday after a small plane crashed into a house near Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose, according to fire officials.

A pilot suffered minor injuries when a plane’s nose wheel collapsed, and the plane crashed Sunday at San Jose’s Reid-Hillview Airport, fire and Federal Aviation Administration officials said.

Police have identified the 29-year-old man who allegedly exchanged gunfire with an officer in East San Jose on Sunday morning as Kevin Riley, of San Jose.

A small plane crash was reported at Reid-Hillview Airport in Santa Clara County Saturday.

A Gilroy community is mourning the death of a family of five after the single-engine plane they were on crashed near Bakersfield over the weekend.

A family of five from Gilroy, California were killed Saturday when their private plane took off from a small San Jose airport and crashed south of Bakersfield as the family was poised to attend a holiday party, according to the Kern County Sheriff’s Department and a relative.

One person was injured Saturday night when a plane turned over as it was landing at Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose, a captain with the San Jose Fire Department said.

San Jose firefighters battled a two-alarm house fire for nearly three hours early Saturday morning.

The Alameda County coroner’s bureau has released the name of the pilot who was found dead in a plane crash Thursday morning in Alameda County.

San Jose police are investigating reports of a stolen airport fuel truck that crashed into a fence at the Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose Friday night.