After a marathon two days of deliberation, the City Council voted 6-5 to place the controversial measure on the November 2020 ballot.

A proposed ballot measure to expand the San Jose mayor’s power has garnered varied opinions from more than half the City Council.

Under the plan unveiled today, the mayor wouldn’t get to hire and fire department chiefs until 2023—when Sam Liccardo terms out.

An economy-crippling pandemic and historic civil unrest has made this one of the most consequential budget years for local governments.

The main difference between the city’s law and the county’s is that San Jose also requires masks for anyone standing in line at the store. 

SJPD Officer Jared Yuen’s apparently antagonistic behavior emerged in tens of thousands of posts on social media since Friday’s protest.

Though that decision is still a couple weeks away, some residents expressed their concerns about enforcement and their constitutional rights.

Vice Mayor Chappie Jones and Councilman Sergio Jimenez want the city to align with neighboring counties that have stricter rules in place.

Old tensions ran high at Tuesday’s meeting over a proposed site for emergency shelter for the homeless at Monterey and Bernal roads.

Election officials are still working on tallying up the more than 493,000 ballots cast in the March 3 primary, which saw a 51 percent turnout.

The city wants to create a new land use designation for mobile home parks and apply it to two of them: Westwinds and Mountain Springs.

Sergio Jimenez won a second term to the South San Jose seat with 56 percent of the vote, according to the ROV. 

Super Tuesday got off to a strong start in Santa Clara County with more than 8,000 voters casting their ballots by noon.

In San Jose’s District 2, Councilman Sergio Jimenez is defending his incumbency against business-backed Jonathan Fleming.

A darkened photo of the District 8 rep has been yanked from a Silicon Valley Organization PAC website in response to public outcry.

The San Jose City Council meets at 1:30pm Tuesday inside the council chambers at City Hall, 200 E. Santa Clara St.