The Latest Breaking News from San Jose

SAN JOSE, Calif. – In a landmark verdict that’s one of the highest of its kind nationwide, a federal jury awarded $21 million in damages to the family of 16-year-old Elena Mondragon, who was fatally shot by Fremont police over five years ago.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Long before the Supreme Court’s bombshell decision Friday overturning Roe v. Wade, transforming reproductive rights for the first time in 50 years, California had laws protecting access to an abortion within its own borders.

For three years now, the San Jose State professor Scott Myers-Lipton has held a mirror to Silicon Valley’s staggering wealth divide, and reflected the disparities: Less than 1% of the Valley’s households account for 25% of the region’s bountiful wealth, while more than 45% of the Valley’s children live in…

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Vowing that “we aren’t going anywhere,” the performer King Art Babe forged ahead Tuesday evening with the Alameda County Library’s first Drag Queen Story Hour event since a group of apparent Proud Boys members disrupted another reading earlier this month in San Lorenzo, Calif.

In the 1970s, the intricately detailed cars with sleek paint jobs and lowered bodies cruised up and down Story and King in the heart of East San Jose. The largely Mexican-American neighborhood had become an epicenter of lowrider culture, building off what had begun on Whittier Boulevard in East Los…

You’ve got a smart phone. Maybe a smart watch. Or even a smart doorbell.

Plagued by years of funding shortages and spiraling costs, California’s beleaguered high-speed rail project suffered another unexpected blow this month in a new report that more than tripled the cost estimate for the San Francisco-to-San Jose segment to a staggering $5.3 billion.

Japan’s Zipair will soon begin flying between Tokyo and San Jose

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The day after an 18-year-old fatally shot 19 young pupils and two teachers at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and reignited the nation’s firearms debate, Los Gatos police said a middle school boy claiming access to guns had threatened to “shoot up the school.”

San Jose, California, is now one step closer to removing a longstanding policy that has resulted in an oversupply of parking throughout the city, sprawl and higher housing costs.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The mother, grandfather and uncle of a 3-year-old girl who died during an exorcism at San Jose church will be tried together on charges connected to her death, after a judge ruled Monday that prosecutors could consolidate the cases.