San Jose CA

When it comes to trash in waterways, shopping carts are a problem. A new state bill aims to improve cleanup of abandoned shopping carts but allowing cities to return them to retailers directly and be compensated for the return.

Deputies with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office are reporting minimal Taser usage in jails — arguing they’ve helped curb violent incidents. But watchdogs aren’t convinced amid a push to arm the whole custody bureau. Deputies used Tasers just nine times out of 252 incidents where...

Willow Glen is known for its quaint charm and affluent San Jose neighborhoods, but a surge in crime is making local businesses uneasy. Downtown Willow Glen, a small strip of shops along Lincoln Avenue, has experienced about 30 reports of vandalism and theft since June, according to San Jose Police Department data....

An unhoused man in the back alley of a San Jose strip mall died after being run over by a garbage truck early Thursday morning, authorities said.

Governor Gavin Newsom has put his signature on Senate Bill 63, also known as the Connect Bay Area Act, giving Bay Area voters the power to determine the fate of their transit systems through a proposed sales tax on the 2026 ballot. If passed, this measure could infuse struggling agencies with the revenue needed to...

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health, and Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group are opening an outpatient facility in Santa Clara, Calif. The Sutter East Santa Clara Care Center will open in multiple phases and provide primary care, advanced specialty care and urgent care services, as well as having an ASC, according...

It’s one thing to be hangry, but it’s another thing entirely to make a public spectacle of yourself over fast food. That’s exactly what one woman in San Jose, California, decided to do when her trip to McDonald’s didn’t go quite as planned. What started as a simple order turned into a full-on meltdown that had...

The driver of the truck was turning into the rear alley of a strip mall in the 2800 block of Bascom Avenue when he struck a pedestrian lying in a driveway.

Did you feel it? A preliminary magnitude 3.1 earthquake struck in Berkeley just east of the Cal campus Thursday morning, according to USGS. It happened at 9:23 a.m., less than an hour before the Great California Shake Out earthquake drill.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - New protections are in place for California street vendors, after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB-635 into state law last week. The law bars California from collecting sensitive immigration status details from street vendors or sharing that information with the federal government....