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A coalition of worker's rights groups, labor unions and local elected officials in the South Bay are pushing for greater protections for essential workers during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
City officials in San Jose have announced work furloughs for hundreds of part-time employees in non-essential jobs, citing at least $45 million in general fund "revenue shortfalls" by the end of the year.
The city of San Jose is facing a $45 million budget deficit, much of it rapidly brought on by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
An early-morning shooting in San Jose resulted in one person getting injured and two suspects arrested Tuesday, according to police.
A little league baseball coach in San Jose has been arrested on charges of lewd acts with a child under 14 years old, according to San Jose police.
Authorities have identified a suspect after windows were smashed at several Asian-owned businesses in San Jose and Milpitas last week.
Stanford Health Care workers are being forced to take mandatory furloughs during the coronavirus outbreak.
As life under the Bay Area's shelter-in-place order enters a seventh week, it remains a study in contrasts. Warm weekend weather drew thousands of restless Californians to beaches up and down the coast.
While most businesses will remain closed under shelter in place, things could soon be loosening up for some types of work in the South Bay, including construction.
The death toll from the COVID-19 outbreak grew to 100 in Santa Clara County over the weekend including six individuals who were previously ruled to have been flu victims but on re-examination by the coroner were found to be infected with the coronavirus.
Public health officials worry summer-like weekend weather will pose a serious challenge to the emergency shelter-in-place order that has helped to slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak in California.
The San Francisco Public Defender's Office said Friday it has secured the release of Lexis Hernandez Avilez, a transgender woman has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since 2018 and was transferred from Northern California without notice last Christmas to a remote detention center in Texas.
More than 9,000 people convicted of marijuana charges in Santa Clara County will have their convictions expunged or reduced next week as a result of Prop. 64, authorities announced Friday.
When Esther Tebeka and her teenage daughter escaped Wuhan, China, in January as countries began restricting travel, they thought they would be returning to their normal lives in the United States.
Santa Clara County's first death from COVID-19 - as well as the first U.S. death - was identified as 57-year-old Patricia Dowd, a senior manager for a Silicon Valley semiconductor firm, according to the county coroner's office.
