For the past year, Santa Clara County has been fine-tuning a regional marijuana ordinance to fill regulatory gaps between San Jose’s new local laws and anticipated statewide legalization in 2016.

The city of San Jose has sued Monsanto Company and two related corporations over chemical pollution in the San Francisco Bay.

For now, capital punishment in California resembles an M. C. Escher drawing—a Möbius strip going endlessly nowhere.

San Jose will create a group tasked with planning a police memorial to commemorate officers killed in the line of duty.

The White House has enlisted San Jose into a nationwide initiative to equip jobless residents with the skills for higher-paying jobs in Silicon Valley.

A routine light rail patrol exploded into a downtown shootout and high-speed chase Friday night, after a man shot at an officer and carjacked a vehicle, according to the San Jose Police Department.

Fresh off the July recess, San Jose's City Council reconvenes Tuesday to start a new fiscal year. With a pension reform settlement out of the way, it's time to talk trestle. The Willow Glen trestle

Kartma will employ formerly homeless people and equip them with not only the skills to brew gourmet coffee but to staff, stock, market and otherwise run a small business.

A federal lawsuit filed Monday levels new allegations of racial profiling by the San Jose Police Department.

Kathryn Steinle’s killing by an unauthorized immigrant in San Francisco has riled the national debate about so-called "sanctuary cities."

Silicon Valley’s largest vocational training and adult education agency, the Metropolitan Education District, has lost its accreditation to train teachers. The downward spiral has been a long time coming.

At a certain point one has to wonder if this has been Superintendent Jon Gundry’s plan all along: change disclosure policies on consulting contracts; discreetly hand out a bunch of big-dollar deals; fire the internal watchdogs; and rule through fear and intimidation so any other objectors resign.

San Jose Police Chief Larry Esquivel on Wednesday announced his plan to retire in early 2016.

At the Vatican this morning and before an audience that included Pope Francis, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo spoke about affordable housing as a solution to Silicon Valley's chasmic gap between rich and poor.

Congressman Mike Honda has spent more than $65,000 in campaign funds to defend himself from a House ethics probe. That's not why most donors give money to a candidate up for re-election, but how Honda targeted these contributors might be considered even more offensive.

San Jose police began field testing body cameras Monday, the latest push for the technology after years of false starts.