San Jose and Santa Clara County join a growing movement to wean local governments off Wall Street by creating publicly owned banks.

Rich Tran says he’ll withdraw from the Santa Clara County supe race to pursue an even higher office.

There will be no court hearing of a request by AG Xavier Becerra's motion to block the sale of the two local hospitals.

San Jose will lose a bit of its soul when a 106-year-old business closes shop on The Alameda and moves operations to Santa Clara.

A petition that has gathered 500-plus signatures is asking city leaders to name a street after President Barack Obama.

In decades past, five big arts groups dominated the Silicon Valley culture scene. The local arts organizations look quite different these days.

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.

The civil grand jury has been quietly investigating the stadium authority for Levi’s Stadium, home to the San Francisco 49ers and Super Bowl 50, while billionaire developers play chess for Santa Clara’s future.

Making San Jose easier to swallow for Middle America’s diabetic masses shouldn't involve sanitizing the streets of local color.

A month shy of Super Bowl 50, local police agencies are going all out. There’s just a couple questions: How much will it cost and who will pay for it?

The U.S. Supreme Court killed San Jose’s hope of luring the Oakland A’s, rejecting the city’s antitrust claim against Major League Baseball.

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.

A sweeping take-down by federal and local law enforcement resulted in an indictment against two-dozen suspected Nuestra Familia leaders.

While the Bay Area as a whole is home to the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, there's a stark difference when regions are broken down.

Code for San Jose—a collective of civic-minded programmers—has set out to take mountains of inchoate public data and form meaningful projects.

Hundreds of historical documents were discovered in May, sealed in a combination safe on the second floor of San Jose’s City Hall. There is some debate about their authenticity, but an assortment of meeting minutes and letters provide a unique perspective of San Jose's rural roots.