San Jose Inside

An obscure 1910s-era labor board once regulated everything from canneries to film sets to sheep farms. Why is California trying to revive it now?

The mayor reaches across the council divide to involve political opponents in grassroots revitalization efforts.

The agreement is intended to ensure that restoration and redevelopment of the site is done in a way that protects public health and the environment,

Karyn Sinunu-Towery is a former assistant district attorney and victims’ rights advocate with the Northern California Innocence Project.

As a final California state budget is being negotiated, special interest goodies are being written into it and the dozens of related “trailer bills” that follow.

Prospective jurors in Santa Clara County and the rest of the state are not paid on their first day of jury duty, then receive just $15 per day and 34 cents per mile, round trip from home. The new bill would offer the higher stipends for two years to low-income jurors in Monterey, Alameda, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Kern counties.

After weeks of negotiations, state legislators will start voting today on a budget deal that sets spending and policy across a wide range of issues affecting Californians.

In 2020, VTA entered into a cost-sharing agreement with the Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing, leveraging Measure A tax funding and VTA land to build four 100% affordable housing developments.

Donald Siao continued to prescribe opioids to one man after he repeatedly claimed the opioids were lost or stolen, after he had been flagged by his prior medical provider for drug-seeking behavior, and after the man's mother fatally overdosed on opioids.

Police said street gang members were arrested for attempted murder, armed robberies, assaults, possession of firearms and possession of narcotics, according to a press release.

After California’s largest home insurance provider said it wouldn’t issue new policies, consumer and insurance industry groups have ideas for what they’d like to see California do.

San Jose will no longer wait for citizen complaints to remove graffiti, junk cars and trash from city streets in downtown and other selected areas.

Once listed for just under $60 million, Rana Creek Ranch is being bought for $35 million by The Wildlands Conservancy, which intends to open the preserve to the public.

While the President is at private fundraisers in Los Gatos and Atherton, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will be raising money for his presidential campaign in a private event in nearby Woodside.

A 1968 Oldsmobile 442 that the suspect, Marcus Hooks, filed an $80,000 claim for had not been stolen and wasn’t owned by Hooks, according to prosecutors.