With California wildfires, it seems that every year brings a new record for “more”: More acres, more frequent, more extreme, more deaths, more destruction.

The California Highway Patrol still impounds thousands of unlicensed drivers’ cars for 30 days, despite a 2017 federal court ruling calling the holds unconstitutional.

Previously, lawyers had been treated like any other city vendors, with their names shown on the list of bills sent to the city council, although no further specifics were posted.

A 20-year-old California would remove guns from people deemed too dangerous to be armed. The measure, plagued by problems, has not achieved its promise.

After a year-long wait, the campaign finance watchdog has a proposal to require elected officials to provide more information on special interest donations to their nonprofits.

A leaked trove of law enforcement records shows that police were told to view anti-brutality protesters as an adversarial force.

Faced with calls to resign and many members defecting to the Fraternal Order of Police, Sgt. Paul Kelly has since changed his tune.

Nabil Haidar says he’s thrilled to see SJPD denounce bigotry. He just wishes the agency held the accused in his case to the same standard.

While homelessness worsens, county bond funds aren’t being spent fast enough and money is being thrown at political donors’ stalled projects.

More than a week has passed since SJPD responded to protests with alarming force. How many people were hurt in the fray is still unclear.

San Jose deploys curfews, tear gas and rubber bullets to quell protests. Perhaps it's time for a fundamental rethink of American policing.

The veteran water official will make $326,352 a year to oversee a district tasked with providing water and flood protection to the South Bay.

Many among the rank-and-file at the long-embattled 4C Council fear that Ben Menor will run yet another nonprofit into the ground.

As Santa Clara County public health authorities battle a mounting pandemic, what they don’t know can actually hurt us.

Blunders in creating the West Coast’s biggest transportation hub suggest that local agencies had better step up their game.

Zia MacWilliams left DST because of what she describes as a toxic culture that promoted heavy drinking and tolerated discrimination.