Milpitas City Manager Tom Williams was placed on paid administrative shortly before the City Council convened for a budget hearing Thursday.

San Jose approved a plan this week to pool money from residents to buy energy from clean sources. It will cost $55 million to get started.

San Jose’s creation of stronger tenant protections—not in the manner preferred by the mayor—has led to questions about who controls the council.

Leaders of two proposed charter schools say San Jose Unified tried to poach prospective teachers and invalidate their signatures.

According to records obtained by San Jose Inside, Milpitas City Manager Tom Williams tried to charge taxpayers for his personal legal expenses.

San Jose will consider an ordinance to allow mobile home park owners to evict residents and close parks without redeveloping them.

Cloudflare, a major content delivery network that has white supremacists clients, said it will change its controversial complaint policies.

A recent column in the Mercury News listed the best and worst local decisions in the last 50 years. Here’s a few more to add to the pile.

Milpitas once again finds itself at odds with its city manager, whose litigious posturing has triggered a probe into suspected corruption.

The decision came after four hours of heated testimony marked by jeers from landlords who called city officials thieves and communists.

TheDistrict Attorney’s Office will seek the death penalty for Antolin Garcia Torres, who was found guilty of murdering Sierra LaMar.

The jury found Antolin Garcia Torres guilty of murdering 15-year-old Sierra LaMar. They must now decide whether he should face the death penalty.

Two weeks after voting to outlaw no-cause evictions for all tenants, San Jose’s City Council will decide when to enact the new rule.

San Jose police shot two men this week. The incidents accounted for the city’s third and fourth officer-involved shootings this year.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo released his proposed 2017-18 budget earlier this spring. Now it’s time for residents to give their thoughts.

A San Jose councilman’s remark about the Vietnam War prompted an angry rebuke at an event commemorating the lives lost.