Mission City is ready to go to arbitration to get the $2.7 million owed. The team says that won’t be necessary.

Note: This new assessment prompted San Jose Inside to take a fresh look at two years of compensation for employees in California cities.

The $501,457 that City Manager Deanna Santana made in 2019 tops that of her counterparts in much larger municipalities.

Two of the seven individuals charged in the eBay cyberstalking case are former police captains with the Santa Clara Police Department.

Mayor Lisa Gillmor signed the “Commit to Action” initiative, led by President Obama, which calls for improved police use-of-force policies.

Organizers plan to repeat the route eight times, one for each minute George Floyd was choked to death by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin.

If approved, the contract between the city Stadium Authority and Singer Associates would go into effect on July 1 and run through March 2022.

Former Mayor Pat Mahan is asking a state watchdog agency to investigate whether the city put taxpayer money to political use.

The city’s mouthpiece defended the cost of the trip as “reasonable” and the purpose as an overall benefit to taxpayers.

Former mayoral candidate Anthony Becker said he is embarrassed that Santa Clara failed to comply with basic transparency standards.

A probe that initially targeted the city’s procurement practices changed focus once civil grand jurors realized another problem was at play.

Ruben Torres brings 33 years of experience to the job, which takes him from an equivalent position at the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department.

David Ebrahimi, the 72-year-old proprietor of David’s Banquet Hall in Santa Clara, must never have heard the old saw about fighting city hall.

Santa Clara has called off its long-running candidate forums in one of the most consequential election years in the city’s history.

Deanna Santana, the South Bay’s most prolific public mercenary, is taking her talents to Santa Clara.

Records show that a handful of Sunnyvale’s city directors have benefited from loans that are nearly impossible to find on the open market.