Faculty members at California State University campuses also are at impasse in labor negotiations.

I am concerned about how we, as a city and county, are spending our taxpayers’ funds to address the homelessness crisis.

If no other candidate emerges, Mayor Matt Mahan will be the first unopposed mayoral candidate since the first popular election of a San Jose mayor in 1966.

Prosecutors said Michael Nichols was a key middleman in former sheriff Laurie Smith’s illegal pay-for-play gun permit scheme, introducing executives at AS Solution Inc., a company seeking gun permits, to local lawyers and and the Sheriff's Office. 

San Jose was known as the lowrider capital of California until 1986, when the city banned those cars and created “no cruising zones.” The city overturned its ban on lowriders in 2022, and on Sept. 1 of this year San Jose city officials joined car enthusiasts in celebrating the first Annual Lowrider Day.

Travel website's analysis of top U.S. cities ranks San Jose No. 5, among 'the worst cities to live in for a zombie outbreak.'

The body of Jami Narvaez, 35, of Modesto, was found on Oct. 9 along Mt. Pleasant Road in an unincorporated area of Santa Clara County.

Elections-related bills signed into law will allow disabled voters to vote curbside, permit mail-in ballots to be processed like in-person votes and treat double-voting as a misdemeanor, among other changes. 

The preliminary DUI pilot program in Santa Clara County will be limited to arrestees who are non-violent, first-time misdemeanor DUI arrestees to avoid spending time in jail, while receiving alcohol-related support services at the Mission Street Recovery Station in San Jose.

Mayor Matt Mahan said his goal is to position San Jose as a leader in the AI landscape and make it easier for AI companies to locate and expand in the city.

San Jose's Animal Care Center has experienced years of staffing challenges and is caring for a record number of animals amid a nationwide shelter crisis.

VTA now projects the cost of the final phase of extending BART into downtown San Jose and Santa Clara will be more than 30% higher, and take three years longer, to 2036, to complete.

Student workers at the 23-campus CSU system say their pay is low, their hours are restricted and they get no sick pay. They are hoping to join the employees union to fix that.

A high-speed chase and car jacking in San Jose in 2019 ended in a shootout that killed the suspect’s partner.

Traditional ice skating experience returns to Circle of Palms starting Nov. 17 for 26th season, after a one-year hiatus.

The more moderate weather this year broke a streak of three straight scorching summers, each ranking among the state’s 10 hottest ever recorded.