The real estate deal by the online retail giant marks its second acquisition in Gilroy and extends its footprint — and jobs potential — deeper into South Santa Clara County.

Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a San Jose Democrat who chairs the Assembly labor and employment committee, said that where labor organizing campaigns have failed in low-wage industries, the government needs to act. 

Away from the constant media frenzy surrounding the Trial of the Decade, jurors in the Holmes trial in San Jose dealt with the disruption to their lives.

Ash Kalra of San Jose leads a group of Democratic legislators that Thursday unveiled a package of bills to create a universal health care program funded by new taxes.

Legislators may work on paid leave policies, employee data protections, farmworker elections, while ballot measure proposals could impact businesses and business groups will raise the issue of California’s unemployment insurance fund debt.

A San Jose jury on Jan. 3 found Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes guilty of four federal charges for defrauding investors, but not guilty of four charges related to defrauding patients.  Holmes, founder and CEO of the now-defunct blood-testing company, had been charged with 11 counts related to lying to investors, doctors and patients.   

The zoning changes will limit the number of single-family homes that can be built across the parts of Coyote Valley that do not fall within the boundaries of the cities of San Jose and Morgan Hill. 

A federal jury had returned 28 convictions of Michael Kail of Los Gatos onfraud and money laundering for payments from tech startups seeking Netflix contracts.

Hale Lumber Company, a Morgan Hill family-owned business established in 1945, will close to make way for 49 homes, in a more pedestrian-friendly vision of the downtown area.

The new 28-story mixed-use residential project will eventually have an estimated 1,000 residents in 630 units, one of a number of new buildings praised by the San Jose Downtown Association at its annual meeting as contributing to a new “really distinct skyline” for San Jose.

A new identity for San Jose’s downtown businesses was unveiled Dec. 10 annual meeting at the Hammer Theatre Center by Liquid’s Chief Design Officer, Justin Peters.

At a CalMatters/Milken Institute event, experts discuss how the pandemic has changed the California economy,and say why there’s reason for hope.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced it will provide the funds over a five-year period and work with the San Jose Downtown Association to build a downtown that is “innovative, vibrant, equitable and inclusive.”

Up to 40,000 union members at the health care giant are expected to protest in solidarity with striking engineers across the Bay Area and Sacramento.

The complaint against Synchrony Bank alleged that its agents made “an excessive and unreasonable” amount of calls to debtors and, in some cases, continued to call people even after confirming that they called the incorrect number. 

Nations addressing climate change took on gasoline and diesel vehicles in pledges that mirror California’s mandates and plans — and in some cases, go even further.