Jesse Gary

A 25-year-old San Jose resident has been arrested on suspicion of homicide. Police say Sherman Smith was the primary suspect in the brutal murder of a 72-year-old man who was tied up, repeatedly stabbed, then drowned in a bathtub.

A confidential report of failures within the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office was made public on Monday.

A program in place to protect renters from eviction due to the COVID-19 pandemic nears an all but certain end. California’s eviction moratorium expires September 30, and there’s no political will for its renewal.

Santa Cruz County sheriff’s investigators are continuing their search for a motive in a deadly high-school campus stabbing.

The ongoing conflict between the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and its sheriff took an historic turn Tuesday.

Mandatory evacuation orders were issued that extend to the south side of Lake Tahoe on Monday morning.

The air quality in Lake Tahoe was three times worse on Friday than what officials consider to be hazardous conditions.

Cal Fire Public Information Officer David Clark said for the past two nights, Chinook type-1 helicopters have been brought up from Southern California.

Dozens of anti-maskers, who predictably did not wear masks in the city chambers, forced the City Council to take a recess as they tried to get unmasked attendees out.

Federal and state officials said Monday that California's Caldor Fire is the nation's top priority.