One-party corruption | ICE training | Attacking Iran. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for March 1, 2026.

David DeBolt, the longtime Bay Area reporter and editor for the East Bay Times and San Jose Mercury News, will run the ...

Antioch officers acted in self-defense when they shot a man who charged at them with a knife last summer, the Contra Costa ...

Rep. John Garamendi, D-Fairfield, is hosting an open seat in honor of his former constituent Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old grandmother who was taken into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody ...

This facade has defined civilian oversight and policing on a national and local level: Public pressure is alleviated with hollow promises of accountability, which allows local police, U.S. Immigration ...

Civilian oversight bodies are often described as independent. In practice, they operate within executive control, state ...

Advocates continue to question San Jose’s homeless policies, including whether its new police unit are the right people to initiate contact with unhoused residents.

The defense accused police of a warantless search, brought up a sergeant’s history of racist texting, and a judge suppressed ...

And on the Alameda Patch calendar - Countywide Certificated Education Job Fair ...

The lack of specific information ... made it impossible for them to know that they were firing on an IDOC officer rather than the suspect.” ...

Students and residents across the Bay Area took to the streets during a national day of action to protest the action of federal immigration officers following the deaths of two people in Minnesota.