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08/15/2024

Prosecutors say that Obdulia Banuelos-Esparza of San Jose solicited and accepted up to thousands of dollars each month from the owner of a Bay Area security firm, in exchange for her recommendation that the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds Management Corporation …

08/15/2024

Kihn toured the world and won a number of awards for his hit songs “Jeopardy,” “The Breakup Song,” “Remember” and “Lucky,” and was well known to Bay Area audiences as the morning radio host for KFOX for 17 years.

08/15/2024

On October 13, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Digital Financial Assets Law (DFAL), marking a significant step in regulating the digital asset market.

08/14/2024

One day before the deadline, the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority pulled a $20 billion affordable housing bond off Bay Area ballots amid fears that it wouldn’t pass.

08/14/2024

The death this month of an immunocompromised adult at a local hospital “after experiencing West Nile virus symptoms” is the county's second reported human case of the potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus. The other patient is recovering at home.

08/14/2024

Police reported that during violent incidents that began more than a year ago at his Morgan Hill home, Officer Timothy Hackney threw his girlfriend into a bedroom and would not let her leave, forcibly covered her mouth so she couldn’t …

08/13/2024

All three defendants – Matthew Farris, 36, Jereh Lubrin, 37 and Rafael Rodriguez, 40 – admitted to voluntary manslaughter, seven years after being convicted of second-degree murder and two years after those convictions were overturned by an appellate court.

08/13/2024

Some California agencies are offering incentives and hosting workshops for school districts that want to build affordable housing for teachers.

08/13/2024

The state’s landlords see rising insurance costs, so they say they’re going to have to raise rents. But they complain about laws that limit how much they can do so.

08/12/2024

The sprawling bill that offers protection to whistleblowers and citizens was approved 32-1 by the state Senate in May faces a vote in the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday and must win final approval by Aug. 31 to reach Gov. …

08/09/2024

Californians trigger thousands of wildfires every year with poor choices and reckless behavior: The devastating Park Fire was ignited by a man pushing a burning car.

08/09/2024

The Vice President must defend her California roots and record against attacks by the Trump campaign. Voters and politicians in the swing states of Michigan and Arizona say that may not be the deciding factor.

08/08/2024

Compared with the calls for cat ladies, white dudes and others, the group of venture capitalists supporting the Vice President was small, at around 600.

08/08/2024

A critical new federal audit released this week calls out California for doing too little to prevent fraudulent spending of nearly $320 million in homelessness funds.

08/07/2024

The first fatality occurred Tuesday, when a 12-year-old boy riding a scooter was struck and killed by a pickup truck . The second occurred July 16 when a bicyclist was struck by a vehicle then died Aug. 1.

08/06/2024

Juan Huerta-Palacios, 44, was arrested on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter and felony DUI.

08/06/2024

Judge sentences business owner to jail term after partner avoids jail with guilty plea for illegally smuggling fruit from Vietnam.

08/06/2024

This year’s ballot features competing ballot measures over rent control.

08/06/2024

Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge’s decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major ripple effects.

08/06/2024

Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge’s decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major ripple effects.

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