Santa Clara Valley Water District

Milpitas Mayor Rich Tran dismissed rumors of party crashing and declined to comment on apparent conflicts with the city manager.

The water district took a combative tone from the start of Wednesday’s meeting to discuss how San Jose found itself underwater.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and John Varela, the local water district chair, are sparring in dueling letters about the San Jose flood disaster.

More than 100 people packed the council chambers Thursday to demand answers about the city’s failure to warn them about the flood.

Newly released emails show the SCV Water District and city were communicating well ahead of the flood. Then the communication ended.

The spin cycle on the San Jose flood disaster can be a blur, even for those paying attention.

According to a Santa Clara County memo, not everyone in the mandatory evacuation flood zones actually got the order to leave.

It wasn’t Katrina, but officials failed in every way when it came to notifying San Jose residents of flooding—and it could have been a lot worse.

An inside look at how thousands of homes in San Jose were evacuated due to heavy flooding and a comedy of errors that became a tragedy.

San Jose says it needs federal aid to recover from the flood that forced thousands of people to flee their homes last week.