Silicon Valley has joined a nationwide push to feed the hungry with uneaten food that would otherwise end up in landfills.

A political action committee has revived an effort to replace San Jose’s pot ordinance with one approved by voters.

A new class action lawsuit brought by two inmates claims Santa Clara County’s use of solitary confinement is inhumane and unconstitutional.

A 51-year-old inmate died Friday after jailors found him passed out in his cell at Elmwood, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Under pressure from the feds and mounting political outrage over “Sanctuary Cities,” the county may revise its civil detainer policy.

South Bay leaders on Veterans Day unveiled a campaign to get hundreds of homeless veterans off the streets.

An oversight board tasked with examining Santa Clara County jails decided against disbanding, despite concerns that a parallel probe would undermine its work.

A commission assigned to investigate local jails meets Saturday. Its first order of business: deciding whether to call the whole thing off.

A San Jose restaurant linked to a Shigella outbreak that sickened nearly 200 people has been cleared to reopen, officials announced Thursday.

As of this week, Santa Clara County will no longer collect a $40 fee from people who appeal their property assessment.

A deputy’s confounding decision to turn away a murder suspect placed Santa Clara County’s troubled jails in the national spotlight.

In response to the beating death of a mentally ill inmate, Santa Clara County will make require crisis intervention training for sheriff’s deputies.

The owner of a local collective claims California's new marijuana regulations violate the state's constitution.

San Jose's retired civilian police auditor, LaDoris Cordell, will lead a task force assigned to investigate Santa Clara County's jails.

Public health officials say at least 182 people have been sickened by a bacterial infection after eating at a San Jose seafood restaurant.

In her latest project, journalist Kristin Schreier Lyseggen offers a rare glimpse of the trauma inflicted upon trans women behind bars.