The Mercury News

SAN JOSE, California — Twitter and other companies have unveiled plans to chop more than 900 Bay Area jobs in a fresh round of tech and biotech layoffs that could jolt the region’s increasingly wobbly economy. In recent days, plans for 913 tech and bio…

Tomas Hertl and Logan Couture both scored third-period goals and goalie Kaapo Kahkonen led a brilliant penalty kill as the San Jose Sharks opened a four-game road trip Tuesday with a 4-0 win over the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre. The Sharks, w…

JANUARY Omicron surge Cities around the country and around the world suffered a new surge of coronavirus cases fueled by the omicron variant in late 2021 and into early 2022. Deaths and infections hit new records. One-year anniversary of Capitol riot A…

JANUARY Capitol riots Supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a brazen show of force on Jan. 6, as Congress met to certify the 2020 election. Lawmakers were forced to run for safety as the building was ransacked by radicalized …

As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg lay off thousands of workers in pursuit of their personal visions for the future of the internet, the fate of Twitter and Facebook rests in the hands of these two billionaires, experts say — and the outcome for the two …

MENLO PARK, California — Facebook app owner Meta Platforms has decided to chop thousands of jobs in the Bay Area, a fresh round of painful tech layoffs that will jolt five cities in this region, state labor officials report. All told, the owner of the …

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, set to be sentenced Friday, should go to prison for 15 years and pay back investors she defrauded, federal prosecutors argued in a blistering sentencing memo. Holmes, pregnant and the mother of a young son, last week …

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As an emergency physician at Stanford and Mills-Peninsula hospitals who has treated hundreds of COVID-19 patients, Dr. Ram Duriseti recalled bucking a prevailing treatment strategy early in the pandemic of rushing the sickest patient…

The Warriors’ broadcast crew will look a little different when the team hosts the Spurs Monday night at Chase Center. The Run TMC trio of Hall of Famers Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin will be the voices on the call for NBC Sports Bay Are…

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Bay Area tech and biotech companies have recently revealed plans to chop thousands of jobs, layoffs that raise the specter that these cutbacks might haunt the region’s broader economy. Facebook app owner Meta Platforms is the latest …