The statewide mandate includes prohibitions over watering yards, washing cars without a shutoff nozzle, hosing down sidewalks or watering grass within 48 hours after rainfall. 

San Jose Police used crisis intervention techniques to take into custody a man iarmed with an axe and knife who was vandalizing businesses at a shopping center early today

A ProPublica/Washington Post analysis of Facebook posts, internal company documents and interviews, provides the clearest evidence yet that the social media giant played a critical role in spreading lies that fomented the violence of Jan. 6.

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.   

Monthly poll panelists believe that mandatory lockdowns aren't necessary because of widespread availability of vaccines, and roughly half believe that Sheriff Laurie Smith should resign or serve out the balance of her term and not seek re-election.

The homicide suspect was hospitalized with injuries after the Sunday afternoon car chase from Milpitas into Fremont. Police declined to identify the 42-year-old suspect or the 35-year-old victim.

Assembly Democrats want to use $10 billion out of a projected $30 billion surplus to repair and expand K-12 school facilities to accommodate new transitional kindergarten and community schools approved in 2021.

Explosive anger was a top contender for emotion of the year in 2021. A month-by-month look at some of the stories.

In San Jose, Latinos earn 46 cents for every dollar earned by white workers, according to a new study.

The Legislature's super-majority of Democrats sent Gov. Gavin Newsom hundreds of bills that he signed into law, including several with major consequences for Californians.

How risky is it to attend a New Year’s Eve party?

Prosecutors said they were unable to gather enough evidence showing free lance filmmaker Jeremy Portje intended to injure a Sausalito officer in a Nov. 30 incident when police confiscated video equipment at a homeless encampment.

The new order is made in light of the emergence in Santa Clara County of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 and the 'imminent threat' that it poses to the health of vulnerable residents and the capacity of the healthcare system.

Worsening droughts, competition for scarce supplies, sea level rise, groundwater contamination, earthquakes, wildfires and extreme weather all contribute to California water woes.

In his annual State of the City report, Mayor Sam Liccardo said that in 2021, the city suffered through 'the loss of loved ones to a lingering pandemic, the horrors of mass shootings, the sight of encampments and shuttered storefronts, and the struggles of too many families unable to pay rent.'

Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld of The Chabad House said the Jewish synagogue on Branham Lane in San Jose was damaged by fire after 'someone lit a fire in the carport.'