Through art, tradition, and shared intention, the Lantern Making Contest embodies the spirit of the Lunar New Year — bringing ...

Bill Chuan has announced that he will be running for Milpitas City Council in the November 2026 election.  Chuan first ran for a spot on the Council in 2024. During that year, he and five other ...

Eric Shapiro is a writer and filmmaker. He wrote Macho, the forthcoming Randy Savage biopic produced by Artists for Artists, Midas Entertainment, and Range Media Partners, and Behind the Facade, a ...

Current District 10 State Senator Aisha Wahab has launched a campaign committee to run for Congress. Sakakihara has served as Vice Mayor and City Councilmember in Union City, and is a U.S. Navy ...

Of all things, as I beg your patience, I am going to preface my remarks about Alex Pretti with a memory about my mother. We ...

At the Performing Arts Center Groundbreaking in January. Photo courtesy of MUSD. At the end of January, the Milpitas Unified School District (MUSD) broke ground on a new Performing Arts Center at ...

Video surveillance footage of recent mail theft in one of the Milpitas residential communities. The mail thefts recently reported on by The Milpitas Beat have been increasing in number, with incidents ...

Photo courtesy of Simon Property Group. 2025 has already been a big year for The Great Mall (447 Great Mall Drive)… Since the beginning of this year, they’ve opened a total of 8 new shops and dining ...

As I stood in front of Milpitas City Hall, I watched as Vice Mayor Carmen Montano pulled into a parking spot. Within moments, she was out of her car and walking toward me. She was wearing a bright ...

It’s not every day that late-night dance parties happen at Milpitas supermarkets. But an event called Late Night Madness transpired on December 12 and 13 at Filipino grocery store Seafood City on 1535 ...

The new library signage unveiled at the celebration of the renaming of the Milpitas Jose Esteves Library on July 19, 2025. Left to right: State Senator Aisha Wahab, Milpitas Councilmember William Lam, ...

Last Saturday, The Milpitas Beat attended the world’s largest gathering of people living with Acromegaly (also called “Gigantism” in cases where the disease begins before patients have reached puberty ...