Tenant rights groups want to reform San Jose rent control laws, which allow landlords to boot a tenant for any reason.

A new class action lawsuit brought by two inmates claims Santa Clara County’s use of solitary confinement is inhumane and unconstitutional.

Owners of a Palo Alto mobile home park say the city violated their rights by requiring them to pay $8 million to relocate 400-plus tenants.

As the world reels from terrorist attacks in Paris, Bay Area leaders have urged the U.S. to help Syrian refugees escaping a common enemy.

San Jose lifted some rules for ridesharing services Uber and Lyft. Now the city will decide whether to extend similar treatment to taxis.

A 51-year-old inmate died Friday after jailors found him passed out in his cell at Elmwood, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Under pressure from the feds and mounting political outrage over “Sanctuary Cities,” the county may revise its civil detainer policy.

South Bay leaders on Veterans Day unveiled a campaign to get hundreds of homeless veterans off the streets.

The Internet Cat Video Festival, which began as a social experiment in 2012 has spread to more than 130 cities. On Sunday, it touches down in San Jose.

An oversight board tasked with examining Santa Clara County jails decided against disbanding, despite concerns that a parallel probe would undermine its work.

A cyberattack has kept the San Jose Police Department’s website mostly offline for several days, according to city officials.

To revitalize St. James Park, San Jose may divert millions of dollars in developer fees to fund a special management district.

A commission assigned to investigate local jails meets Saturday. Its first order of business: deciding whether to call the whole thing off.

Walter Katz, a former public defender and police oversight attorney from Los Angeles County, has been named San Jose’s next Independent Police Auditor.

A deputy’s confounding decision to turn away a murder suspect placed Santa Clara County’s troubled jails in the national spotlight.

In response to the beating death of a mentally ill inmate, Santa Clara County will make require crisis intervention training for sheriff’s deputies.