Masks must be worn in all indoor public places in the state regardless of vaccine status, the state Department of Public Health said in a Jan. 5 evening post on Twitter.

Santa Clara County school board member Rosemary Kamei is the first new San Jose council candidate of the New Year, seeking to represent District 1 in West San Jose. “After careful consideration, I am jumping in,” Kamei told San Jose Inside. Rosemary is vice president of innovation and former chief operating officer at Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

Explosive anger was a top contender for emotion of the year in 2021. A month-by-month look at some of the stories.

Mayor Sam Liccardo's proposed mandate would make San Jose the first city in California to require booster shots.

A federal jury had returned 28 convictions of Michael Kail of Los Gatos onfraud and money laundering for payments from tech startups seeking Netflix contracts.

The suspects have been charged for more than 70 cases that occurred between October 2020 and this September, and hate crime enhancements have been added because the men allegedly frequently targeted Asian females who ended up injured in robberies

California Redistricting Commission was considering a plan that would split San Jose among four congressional districts.

With case rates increasing 47% since Thanksgiving, the California Department of Public Health will require universal masking to increase protection to individuals, families, and communities during the holidays.

The new 28-story mixed-use residential project will eventually have an estimated 1,000 residents in 630 units, one of a number of new buildings praised by the San Jose Downtown Association at its annual meeting as contributing to a new “really distinct skyline” for San Jose.

A new identity for San Jose’s downtown businesses was unveiled Dec. 10 annual meeting at the Hammer Theatre Center by Liquid’s Chief Design Officer, Justin Peters.

Shop with a Cop Foundation of Silicon Valley, San José Police Department, and Target Corporation will host the 14th annual holiday toy distribution in San Jose Dec. 4.

FBI and Justice Department say Mounir Gad of Los Gatos submitted false letters of support to obtain a light sentence for securities fraud.

In a statement, the airline said: “We received reports last month about the off-duty disagreement between crew members on an overnight trip."

Campbell police said officers responded at about 10:45 a.m. Nov. 2 to reports of a shooting and a person down in the roadway on the 300 block of W. Sunnyoaks Avenue, where they found a male victim suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He later died in the hospital.

Two men have been charged with hate crimes in Santa Clara County for separate assaults against an Asian American woman walking her dog in Los Gatos and a 93-year-old Persian American in San Jose. According to a press release today by the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, Richard Hanford, 62, of Los Gatos, told an Asian American woman: “This is America, (expletive deleted)” before striking her on a sidewalk in Los Gatos. David Greenburg, 56, of Redwood City, spit at an elderly San Jose Persian American man and told him: “Go back to your (expletive deleted) country.”

Both are charged with misdemeanor hate crime charges.

A 19-year-old cousin of Gilroy council member and prominent Santa Clara County Democrat Rebeca Armendariz was arrested in connection with a Halloween party shooting outside her home that left an 18-year-old dead and three other teens injured.