The Valley Transportation Authority is hopeful its offer of more pay and improved benefits will end the regional transit strike.

The court decision Monday wasn’t the only rejection that hit the transit agency. Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a request from the VTA to intervene in the labor dispute and asked the two sides to resume negotiations on a three-year contract.

Last year’s initial budget projection featured an estimated $53 million shortfall. The new budget projection unveiled by Maguire this week showed a projected $46 million shortfall, the equivalent of about 3% of the city’s $1.6 billion spending plan.

Danhong Chen and her business partner and ex-spouse, Jianyun Ye, were indicted by a federal grand jury in March 2019 for committing fraud to obtain immigration benefits for foreign investors. Ye pleaded guilty in 2021 and served a year in prison.

Representatives from both sides met Monday, but neither side budged from bargaining positions for a new three-year contract that remained far apart, with no new conversations scheduled.

U.S. Head Start auditors told local education officials that they had discovered a pattern of previous administrators scoffing at grant rules and rejecting calls for oversight.

Ramsey was immediately replaced by his top assistant prosecutor, Patrick Robbins, who will serve as acting U.S. attorney until the President names a permanent federal prosecutor to lead the high profile U.S. attorney’s office, based in San Francisco, which also serves Silicon Valley and San Jose.

SJSU, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts high school athletic association are cited as violators of President Trump's Feb. 5 executive order banning transgender athletes. The N.C.A.A. changed its position immediately, citing the President's order.

The City Council pledged an undetermined amount of new financial support for the Rapid Response Network, co-founded by the city in 2016 to track actions by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, providing on-the-spot counseling and legal assistance to undocumented immigrants.

Salas is a 50-year resident of San Jose, and built a solid reputation for his work promoting civic projects, leading the downtown Rotary Club.

Two Special Operations officers were not injured after returning fire in the seemingly unprovoked incident last week in East San Jose.

Alexander Beckman, 41, and his wife Valerie Lau Beckman, 38, of San Francisco, were arrested on Jan. 24 on charges of bank and wire fraud in connection with AI services for the nation's major sports leagues and biggest team franchises.

President Donald Trump is reportedly trying to accelerate the appointment of new U.S. attornies at faster pace than his predecessors, including his own first term, to provide stronger support for his deportation and other initiatives.

Seven candidates qualified as candidates for the April special election. The council had decided that no person could seek election to the coveted downtown council seat if they also sought appointment to the interim seat.

If no candidate receives a majority on April 8, the top two candidates will run against each other in a special runoff election on June 24. The winner will serve the remainder of the term through 2026.

San Jose police said Lucien Cabrera, 19, built illegal guns in his San Jose home and brazenly marketed them on social media.