Investigative Reports

While state agencies have undergone a reckoning over sexual harassment, local governments have largely escaped scrutiny—until now.

A landmark law designed to protect California’s environment has enabled profiteers to hold up critical projects.

A powerful union leader violated agency policies by failing to report hate speech—and the former undersheriff leapt to his defense.

The Santa Clara Councilman has been the subject of sexual harassment claims since he began teaching high school in the early 2000s.

A scathing new report found that 4Cs child care nonprofit mismanaged state grants and caused undue financial hardship for countless families.

The federal Office of Early Head Start is investigating claims of harassment at the Community Child Care Council of Santa Clara County.

The #MeToo ethos fuels the effort to oust Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky from the bench in an unprecedented recall election.

For years, media outlets desperately chased the clicks promised by Facebook; now the social media giant threatens to destroy them.

An audit of RMC, a consultant for Silicon Valley’s public water agency, was intentionally limited in scope to avoid looking into claims of illegal activity. Additionally concerning, the district is now using public money to try and discredit past media reports.

Shocking allegations shut down Life Choices rehab in 2014, but the people in charge dispute the charges and are back in business.