A shift toward risky but poor-performing investments now costs San Jose’s pension plans more than $70 million a year in fees alone.

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

As San Jose’s elected leaders quibble about equity in the city’s budget, another test of their fidelity to the principle is on the horizon.

The backlash against Greer Stone stems from the way he defended his brother, a convicted child abuser, at a sentencing hearing.

Following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s moratorium on capital punishment, will California voters finally put the death penalty out of its misery?

Bryce Druzin says he felt compelled to express his horror over the world’s worst humanitarian crisis by risking arrest.

California and other states with high immigrant populations stand to lose big if the citizenship question is included on the decennial survey.

The first-term councilwoman, who represents the city’s affluent and politically active Willow Glen district, says she welcomes the challenge.

A new bill would bar colleges from receiving state financial aid dollars if they give preference to applicants with ties to alumni or donors.

Two unions repping nurses in the expanded county-run hospital system are at odds over differing interpretations of a labor-relations law.