Silicon Valley’s flood protection agency might have prevented the Anderson Dam from overflowing earlier this year, but failed to act.

After receiving a $150,000 grant from the Knight Cities Challenge, San Jose has hired a new city designer in Timothy Rood.

In a bit to improve transparency, San Jose will consider increasing the frequency of its lobbying reports.

San Jose this week adopted a $3.2 billion budget that allocates money for disaster response and re-housing people displaced by the flood.

In the recently launched SV411 Podcast, we speak with San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia about police shootings and mental illness.

The proposed Diridon Station Googleplex has San Jose officials seeing dollar signs while local businesses, residents suspect the end is nigh.

It appears Milpitas City Manager Tom Williams has a history of trying to pay his personal legal bills with public funds.

Two elected officials in San Jose want to earmark an extra $150,000 to expand mediation services for tenants and landlords.

San Jose was the only Bay Area city to take part in Sunday’s national human rights protest known as the Equality March for Unity & Pride.

Rock Springs, the San Jose neighborhood hit hardest by the Feb. 21 flood, may finally get the help it needs to withstand a future deluge.

A Silicon Valley lawmaker wants to tax corporations that pay workers so little that they rely on public subsidies to scrape by.

Former Casino M8trix owner Eric Swallow says the state broke the law by forcing him to sell his stake in the card club to his business partner.

Google is eyeing San Jose’s most prized real estate for development, which could bring thousands of new jobs and create a mass transit hub.

Parents of Sierra LaMar, who was murdered by Antolin Garcia Torres, found little comfort in the life sentence he received.

There’s a bit of a light fight in San Jose. Not everyone is on the same page about new LED streetlights and potential surveillance.

De Anza College students claimed victory Thursday night by curbing a proposal to hike the cost of commuting by 440 percent.