San Jose Metro News

SAN JOSE, Calif. - New job figures show unemployment is on the rise in Silicon Valley even though the high-tech hub has added more jobs.

Two San Jose banks were the targets of robbers Wednesday, incidents that left one customer with a stab wound in the arm, according to police.

In San Jose's Edenvale Technology Park, small life-sciences companies are looking to change the world.

Mosquitoes infected with the West Nile Virus were found in San Jose , the Santa Clara County Vector Control District announced Friday.

Nearly five weeks after a Hoover Middle School student was hit and killed by a car, new crosswalks and a bicycle safety program are in the works as part of a broad plan to calm traffic in the neighborhood.

Police have arrested a man suspected of unsuccessfully attempting to rob a Bank of America on Alum Rock Avenue in San Jose Wednesday and stabbing a customer on his way out, according to San Jose police.

The bid follows Loring Ward's recommendation Tuesday that shareholders accept a $17.35-a-share offer from rival Friedman Fleischer and Lowe.

Five suspects in the slaying of a mentally ill man pleaded not guilty Thursday to rendering criminal assistance to murder.

Friends and colleagues of Portola Valley architect Kevin Schwarckopf were shocked and saddened by the fatal shooting of his wife, Cher Xia Zhao, in San Jose on July 1. Ms.

The California Supreme Court on Monday struck down a special fee on Santa Clara County homeowners used to pay for open space acquisition, possibly wiping out more than $50 million collected over the past seven ...

Police in Oakland, Calif., said they arrested two people after firefighters responding to a blaze at the home discovered about 150 marijuana plants.

NEW YORK : Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington.

In this April 23, 2008 file photo, passengers use Delta Air Lines' self check-in counter at San Jose International Airport in San Jose, Calif.. Delta Air Lines Inc.

Representatives of Sand Hill Property Co. showed off a broad revitalization plan on July 8 for the 125-acre South Vallco area that emphasizes creating a family friendly, community-gathering destination similar ...

SOME DAYS I need an afternoon jolt of gargantuan proportions - that doesn't contain either caffeine or sugar.

Scraping together whatever spare time he could find during his patrol shift, San Jose Police officer Vidal Fonseca brought down a suspected methamphetamine lab operating near an elementary school.

A former vice president of imaging and printing services at the Hewlett Packard Company pleaded guilty today to stealing trade secrets, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the ...

The confession came as the teenage girl lay side by side in the ambulance with the woman who had just hurt her.

An aerial infrared image of a wildfire area forms the backdrop for California Gov.

A Canadian Internet porn company has agreed to pay Facebook half a million dollars after it allegedly hacked the popular social networking website's computers.