SJPD's staffing shortfall has made recruiting even more important. But a recent trip to Hawaii raises questions about how the budget is being spent.

In an exclusive interview, SJPD Chief Eddie Garcia speaks out on gun control laws, Black Lives Matter and how to create a safer society.

To address a critical police staffing shortage, San Jose is expected to suspend union protections to reassign detectives back to patrol.

In decades past, five big arts groups dominated the Silicon Valley culture scene. The local arts organizations look quite different these days.

Five years after Gov. Jerry Brown signed the FAIR Education Act, California’s public schools are now rolling LGBTQ history into the coursework.

A veteran San Jose police officer was arrested Tuesday for allegedly leaking sensitive information to a Vietnamese street gang.

A spate of new laws will reduce penalties for minors as part of a push by policymakers to keep kids out of the criminal justice system.

Ragged roads in the South Bay cost the average driver $2,471 a year in wear and tear, crashes and congestion-related delays.

To curb avian collisions, San Jose will consider requiring builders to abide by bird-friendly architectural guidelines.

Contractors might have plowed through ancient human remains had it not been for a local journalist alerting the county to its glaring oversight.

Congressman Mike Honda has an inauspicious anniversary on the horizon, as his ethics scandal approaches its second year.

The city has two options for the Evans Lane site: one would house people by next summer, the other would add affordable homes in the long-term.

Lawmakers have called for an audit of California’s Commission on Judicial Performance for the first time in the agency’s 56-year history.

Pokémon Go takes the South Bay and the world by storm, but raises concerns about privacy, safety and the social inequities of the real world.

The SBLC has seen better days. There’s always the next crop of political stars to groom, but managing endorsements has proven a challenge.

Santa Clara County court clerks demanding higher pay continued their strike into day five, forcing courts to suspend all but essential services.