Undergraduate student assistants at California State University are mounting a union organizing campaign, calling for more work hours, paid sick time and higher wages.
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Videos of Police Shootings in California Are Edited to Follow the Same Script
California law requires law enforcement agencies to release body cam footage of police shootings. Many departments shape those images into stories they want to tell.
California Approved $300M in State-backed Home Loans — Who Got the Money?
A new loan program for first-time home buyers only served a couple thousand borrowers, most of them white, non-Latino and living in the Sacramento area.
Local NAACP: Independent Investigation of San Jose Police Union Needed
The San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP wants an independent, transparent, and comprehensive investigation of the SJPOA and any public agency named in association with the alleged international fentanyl smuggling network.
FDIC Says Agreement By SVB To Invest $11B in Communities Died with Bank
The March 27 purchase by First Citizens Bancshares of all assets and liabilities of the failed Silicon Valley Bank did not include a community reinvestment pledge signed by SVB in 2021 as part of an acquisiton of Boston Private Bank.
Sacramento Cuts Back on Press Access, Prefers Emails to Interviews
Accelerated by the COVID pandemic, a shift by state officials toward emails and written statements is making it more difficult for journalists to be watchdogs for Californians.
Judge Orders Concrete Firm to Stop Dumping Hazardous Waste in Almaden Valley
The county said the company and several affiliated individuals were transporting hazardous concrete slurry waste from construction sites to a remote property in Almaden Valley.
Homeland Security Accuses Top San Jose Police Union Official of Smuggling Fentanyl into the U.S.
Joanne Segovia is accused of buying and distributing opioids for eight years, running some transactions from her San Jose Police Officers’ Association office.
Senators Question Oversight, Regulators Blame Banks’ Poor Management
Federal regulators blame banks' poor management, while U.S. Senators this week sharply questioned oversight after Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures rattled the financial system.
California Bill Would Force Big Tech to Pay for Content from Local News Outlets
The California Journalism Preservation Act directs big tech companies to pay publishers a “journalism usage fee” each time they use local news content and sell advertising alongside it. In turn, the bill requires news publishers to invest 70% of the profits from the usage fee in journalism jobs.
Federal Reserve’s Repeated Warnings Were Not Enough to Save Silicon Valley Bank
The picture that is emerging of SVB is one of a bank whose leaders failed to plan for a realistic future and neglected looming financial and operational problems, even as they were raised by Fed supervisors.
Feds Charge San Jose Man with Selling Pills that Resulted in Fatal Fentanyl Overdose
Prosecutors accused Ian Edward Parrish, 28, of San Jose, of selling two counterfeit Percocet pills to an individual in a bar in Fremont that were laced with fentanyl. The individual who bought the pills consumed one and shortly thereafter died of an overdose.
DA Says Woman Lied About Being Raped Twice at Stanford, Faces Perjury Charges
Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen said that evidence shows that Jennifer Gries made up the rape stories because she was angry at a co-worker.
Feds Announce That All SVB Depositors Will Get Their Money Beginning This Week
The Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced in a joint statement Sunday that all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will have access to all of their money starting Monday, March 13, and that none of these costs will be paid by U.S. taxpayers.
State Regulators Shut Down Silicon Valley Bank, FDIC Takes Control of Loans and Deposits
The FDIC move came less than two hours after a decision by tech funding giant SV Financial Group, parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, to halt trading shortly after markets opened this morning on NASDAQ – after its stock collapsed in 24 hours from $176.55 to $39.25 per share – sent shock waves across financial markets worldwide.
Neighborhood Surveillance Cams Helped Cops Nab PG&E Bombing Suspect
A three-month investigation ended last week when police arrested Peter Karasev, 36, on suspicion of bombing transformers on Thornwood Drive in December and on Snell Avenue in January.
