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.

San Jose police have identified the gunman who held a woman hostage Monday in a standoff that left both dead and an officer wounded.

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.

Internal emails show that Santa Clara Valley Water District CEO Beau Goldie and top-level staff have repeatedly misled the board of directors and public regarding contracts with consultant RMC Water and Environment.

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

A San Jose restaurant linked to a Shigella outbreak that sickened nearly 200 people has been cleared to reopen, officials announced Thursday.

As of this week, Santa Clara County will no longer collect a $40 fee from people who appeal their property assessment.

Santa Clara Valley Water District staff has shared emails with nude photos and racist and homophobic jokes. Many were sent under CEO Beau Goldie's watch.

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.

As San Jose’s only cat cafe prepares to close, one elected official has proposed creating a city-run replacement to promote shelter adoptions.