Measure D, a Gilroy charter amendment, would require the city to formally bid a public project that exceeds $200,000, up from the current $35,000, which was adopted in 1960. 

Defendant also admits multiple tax crimes and forfeits millions i
n assets.

About 300 small businesses are participating in the Very Small Quantity Generator hazardous waste disposal program, with first dropoff site opening today, Nov. 2.

A father and son who are the owners of two commercial cleaning companies in San Jose were arrested this week after state officials allege they underreported $12 million in payroll to save on paying workers compensation insurance. Edgardo Cabrales Sr., 61, and his son, Edgar Cabrales Jr., 36, are charged with five felony counts each of insurance fraud, following an investigation by the California Department of Insurance. The investigation into the Cabrales' companies, Pine Building Maintenance and Network Facility Management, began after officials suspected the businesses of fraud.

Google was accused of losing data critical to the investigation of a $4 billion cryptocurrency money laundering scheme. As part of the settlement, the company said it spent over $90 million to improve its ability to respond to future data requests.

A of Sept. 30, initial public offerings in California had raised just $177 million, compared to an average of $16 billion during the same period over the past five years. That's just 2% of funds generated by U.S. companies that went public through the end of September. Last year at this time, California accounted for 39% of funds nationally.

Data breaches involved millions of Uber user records and tens of thousands of driver licenses, federal prosecutors said.

Two days before the Sept. 30 deadline, after vetoing a similar bill last year and resisting months of marches, vigils and posturing, including a note from President Biden, Newsom changed his mind on a farmworker labor bill.

The U.S. Treasury’s State Small Business Credit Initiative will increase small business owners’ access to capital, cover upwards of 80% of loans.

San Jose will seek legal action if the utility doesn't replace or repair its failing infrastructure after more than 30,000 households and three hospitals experienced power outages this week.

The enhanced enforcement of the program, which will go into effect Oct. 13, includes sharp increases in fines – from 10 to 25 times greater – plus the permanent revocation of a permit for a third offense.

Supporters swayed moderate Democrats by removing a provision that would have put fast food corporations on the hook for labor violations at franchise locations, but industry lobbying and opposition from his own Department of Finance could convince Newsom to veto the bill.

Wendy Wong ran a Milpitas business called House of Aloha Hawaii, which came to an end in August 2019 as a long line of victims came forward to report their ruined vacation plans and $200,000 in missing money.

Komodo Fire Systems of Morgan Hill worked with firefighters and volunteers from throughout the Bay Area.

The 49ers offered to pay $3.3 million to the city’s general fund, plus $650,000 to the Santa Clara Stadium Authority, which could spare the authority an additional $8.35 million in legal fees in a protracted dispute.

Ahmad Abouammo, formerly of Walnut Creek, and a former media partnerships manager for Twitter's Middle East/North Africa region, was found guilty acting as a foreign agent of Saudi Arabia without providing notice to the Attorney General, money laundering and conspiracy.