Joseph Bell is a free man now, but he still recalls with pain the 22 years he spent in state prison while sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for a San Francisco robbery in which his ...

After seeing issues with autonomous vehicles across the state, South Bay State Senator Dave Cortese wants to put up some regulation guardrails for the community. He has introduced Senate Bill 915 ...

Not everyone sees it that way. State Sen. Dave Cortese (D–San José) said sending the fossil-fuel-burning engines to Peru is just shifting pollution and greenhouse emissions from one place to another ...

Tragedy and a lack of workplace safety measures led one Silicon Valley lawmaker to call for tighter regulations to protect employees.

The potential loss of federal support would pose one more setback for the project, which has struggled to identify tens of ...

San Jose state Sen. Dave Cortese has introduced a bill to prevent state agencies selling decommissioned diesel trains for reuse after Caltrain authorized the sale of part of its diesel-powered ...

Several politicians and residents in the Bay Area wrote fondly of former president Jimmy Carter, highlighting his presidency ...

Dave Cortese, who also named her “Woman of the Year” in his district in April, and has previously spoken publicly in favor of unseating Stone. Zhao said her background in both technology and ...

A sampling: ONE TO STOP CALIFORNIA FROM EXPORTING OLD DIESEL TRAINS: Senate Transportation Committee Chair Dave Cortese introduced a bill to restrict the sale of retired diesel trains, in response ...

San Jose state Sen. Dave Cortese has introduced a bill to prevent state agencies selling decommissioned diesel trains for reuse after Caltrain authorized the sale of part of its diesel-powered fleet ...

Sen. Dave Cortese (D-San Jose), chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, said that a combination of cap-and-trade and private developer investments is key to sustaining the life of the project.