The donation is the largest ever for the non-profit, and will accelerate its plans to serve women in Africa and Asia with devastating childbirth injuries.

Prosecutors said Botox injections and lip fillers were illegally administered at a home med spa in San Jose, resulting in criminal charges for practicing medicine without a license.

Senators derided SVB's former CEO Gregory Becker at a hearing about the reasons for the failure of his bank. “It sounds a lot like ‘my dog ate my homework,’” one said

A new state law aims to ensure workers with disabilities earn at least the minimum wage.

Atlanta-based Pulte Group contends its Quito Village project doesn’t need to abide by the original developer’s first-of-its-kind union-hiring standard set by a new housing law.

All three hospitals in the Santa Clara County healthcare system received a “C” grade for ensuring patient safety in 2021 and 2022.

California cities of every size lack shelter beds for the state’s growing homeless population. A new bill would force local governments to do more, and punish cities that don’t plan housing for unhoused residents.

The Federal Reserve released hundreds of pages documenting how bank supervision and regulation failed to prevent the lender’s painful collapse. The F.D.I.C. released a separate report on Signature Bank’s failure.

A California housing law grants generous benefits to builders who agree to only hire union workers. Trouble is, few if any builders found a way to do it.

San Jose Fire Chief Robert Sapien Jr. told City Council members Tuesday that unspecified “appropriate disciplinary action” had been taken and that he considered his investigation of the Oct. 5 incident at The Pink Poodle closed.

When the project is completed in 2029, VTA riders will be able to get on light rail at the Eastridge Transit Center and connect directly with BART at Milpitas Station.

The April 21 downgrading of the credit ratings of 11 regional banks by Moody’s raised new doubts about their stability, while their leaders said the turmoil spurred by last month’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has passed.

Nitrate contamination of well water has been a decades-long problem in the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys — and now stormwater has flushed more manure and fertilizer into sewers.

Sen. Dave Cortese of San Jose began pushing for the audit after touring a massive homeless encampment on vacant land near the San Jose Mineta International Airport. San Jose will be one of two cities targeted by the audit.

The grand jury report, titled "Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Santa Clara City Council," alleged unethical relationships between multiple members of the City Council and the 49ers. Becker allegedly leaked a draft of the report at least three days ahead of its planned Oct.10 release.

One day after the police union announced it would hire an independent investigator, San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata said on Twitter there would be no internal departmental investigation of possible police officer involvement in illegal activities at the 1,100-member union.