Healthier Kids Foundation CEO Kathleen King makes a living on taxpayer money. In a small measure of sanity, she won’t get a public pension to boot.

Santa Clara County will explore the idea of putting a $750 million affordable housing bond on the fall ballot.

Two sons of a Bangladesh-born San Jose couple shot to death in their home on Sunday have been booked on murder charges.

More local media cuts occurred last week, as the Mercury News not only eliminated its copy desk but also bought out several veteran journalists.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo joined labor leaders to tout the measure as a fix for the city’s short-staffed police force.

In his inaugural report as SJPD watchdog, Walter Katz urges the city to take better accounting of how and when officers resort to force.

A new report says South Bay Water Recycling, which provides reclaimed water to San Jose, needs to get a better handle on its accounting.

An avowed atheist has sued the city of Santa Clara for disregarding his demands to remove a Christian cross from a public park.

A new study found that a quarter of local workers would see a 20-percent pay bump if the region upped its minimum wage to $15.

In a split decision that closed out a marathon meeting, San Jose’s City Council lowered a cap on rent hikes for the first time in four decades.

April 20, or 420, has become a holiday in cannabis culture. The men who claim to have coined the term found the missing link to their story in San Jose.

Chuck Reed spent half his tenure as mayor of San Jose battling pot clubs. Now he’s joining forces with collectives for 4/20.

San Jose's City Council will decide this week whether to cut allowable annual rent increases for one-third of the city’s apartments.

One of Rep. Mike Honda’s top money bundlers stepped in it this week.

The Knight Foundation awarded six-figure grants to a proposal to host a night market in downtown San Jose and cultural events in the East Side.

Facebook has offered to speed up San Jose's free wi-fi with a new technology called Terragraph. The test run is set to launch later this year.