Good Karma Bikes is part of a growing number of groups in Silicon Valley to merge cycling and social justice, or treat them as though they were always connected.

The District 4 council race in San Jose has been whittled to two candidates, Tim Orozco and Manh Nguyen, and the latter has quite a life story—as well as some Gatsbyish intrigue.

The longstanding perception that San Jose police disproportionately target certain racial minorities was confirmed last week. While African Americans and Latinos make up about a third of the city, they account for two-thirds of traffic stops.

As San Jose's burgeoning rents price out longtime residents, force some into homelessness and others to double-up with parents in multi-generational households, city officials are talking about how to bolster local regulations to help tenants.

San Jose will remain home base for the Sharks, putting to rest rumors that the hockey club could up and move to another city.

City officials will consider reducing local speed limits and ramping up enforcement to curb traffic fatalities, which rival the annual number of homicides in San Jose.

Santa Clara County won’t get the secret cell phone spying technology Sheriff Laurie Smith has been pushing the last year.

A rare conviction of an East San Jose woman who admitted to illegal animal trafficking highlights the challenges in stopping the illicit wildlife trade.

Almost a month has passed since the anonymous political links blog The Daily Fetch went silent. But the site announced Tuesday it will return this week. The timing coincides neatly with the Santa Clara Valley Water District's hiring of Kerry Hillis, the blog's reported buyer.

Just last weekend, a bystander recorded a group of San Jose police officers wailing on a 22-year-old man in San Jose’s East Side. While the circumstances of the arrest are under review, the video has gone viral.

A state lawmaker thinks there should be a warning label for potentially unconstitutional citizen initiatives, like the infamous "kill the gays" bill.

A developer's petition to rezone an industrial property for housing has elicited full-throated opposition from city officials worried about San Jose's jobs-to-housing imbalance.

Empowered by a new state law, Santa Clara County authorities have kicked off a campaign to weed out massage parlors that get a little too friendly.

Not everyone should take a crack at comedy, especially senior policy advisers to the mayor of San Jose. Add in a little social media and a reference to the worst person in the history of the world and the results will go poorly.

Extensive records requests San Jose Inside filed with law enforcement agencies across the Bay Area show that the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office has become ground zero for concealed weapon permit requests.

Magdalena Carrasco's sponsored trip last fall to New York City constitutes a violation of state law and will force her to sit on the sidelines for some of this year’s most important City Council votes.