Commercial developments in San Jose just got a little more expensive to build, but the extra costs will go to new affordable homes.

The linkage fee on commercial developments—offices, warehouses, hotels and retail shops—would fund affordable housing in the city.

Weingarten Realty’s new plans come about three years after their first, which got major pushback from the community.

More than 10,000 PG&E customers in the heart of San Jose were left in the dark late Tuesday in the middle of a days-long heatwave.

The data, compiled by car shopping app CoPilot, ranks the South Bay city’s streets the second-worse in the country for large cities.

Chris Funk, superintendent of San Jose’s East Side Union High School District, hopes his absence will help solve the district's budget impasse.

Google has announced its latest round Bay Area housing funding, aimed at pushing forward about 24,000 new homes over the next decade.

Thanks to generous donation from tech giants, each business received $10,000 for relief from the economic toll of the coronavirus.

Not San Jose. The largest city in the Bay Area recently selected the SimpliGov platform for workflow automation and online forms.

After arresting a city staffer on suspicion of molesting a 15-year-old girl, San Jose police have asked for the public's help in identifying more victims.

San Jose is about to lose another of its lead planning directors, Laurel Prevetti, who accepted a job as Assistant Town Manager of Los Gatos.

Environmentalists clash with private landowners who want to develop a greenbelt property in San Jose's southeastern hillsides.

Republic Services, the company that runs Newby Island landfill, owes its workers nearly $2.6 million in back pay, according to San Jose’s city attorneys.

Last week, Santa Clara County Judge Patricia Lucas issued a final Measure B verdict. A reader wondered in an email why we didn’t write about it. Fair point, which brings us to this update. The final decision in the landmark pension reform case that forced employees to contribute 16 percent more of their pay to retirement costs is similar to the tentative ruling trotted out in December, except for a couple details.

City leaders on Tuesday will consider placing a measure to extend an about-to-expire library parcel tax on the June ballot.

Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio's plan to change the way San Jose funds it police department comes back to the Rules and Open Government Committee this week.