When someone voluntarily goes missing, personal rights and legal restrictions make it nearly impossible for their family to find them.

A massive cache of newly released documents show how Apple Inc. dodged billions of dollars in taxes by parking profits overseas.

San Jose officials may create a vacant storefront registry to spur landlords to clean up or lease out blighted buildings in downtown.

Authorities concluded that Santa Clara police acted lawfully when they fatally shot an unarmed, mentally ill man.

San Jose’s largest privately held water utility is angling for yet another rate increase. This one is tied to the company’s shareholder profits.

City-hired tow companies are lobbying for a new contract, claiming that skyrocketing labor and RV towing costs have cut into their bottom line.

Milpitas has finally released records detailing previously undisclosed allegations of wrongdoing by disgraced City Manager Tom Williams.

After calling off a planned hunger strike, Santa Clara County inmates began refusing food anyway to protest comments by Sheriff Smith.

Two cash-strapped renters are appealing a judge’s dismissal of their claim that a San Jose land-use policy flouts state affordable housing law.

Builders in San Jose now have to hire union workers and pay living wages on public projects worth $6 million or more.

Inadequate policies and procedures led to numerous mistakes in Santa Clara County’s election office, according to a newly released state audit.

The City Council on Tuesday will vote on whether to extend the interim rent control cap, which sunsets Dec. 31.

Instead of offering tax breaks, San Jose pitched its talent, education and status as Silicon Valley’s largest city in a bid to lure Amazon to town.

Santa Clara County inmates are set to refuse food to protest what they call the arbitrary use of solitary confinement and other jail conditions.

Internal call logs show that ICE’s VOICE hotline has become a way for families, friends and neighbors to snitch on suspected undocumented immigrants.

San Jose will discuss an ordinance that would require gun owners to lock up their weapons while they’re away or risk getting fined.