A legal shield protecting police officers from excessive force lawsuits has taken a major blow in San Jose.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied qualified immunity for Michael Panighetti, a San Jose Police Department officer who …
Chris Constantin was sure he’d enlist in the U.S. Army Airborne Rangers after receiving his master’s degree, but his past public service ended up determining his future.
The Los Gatos Town Council unanimously selected Constantin as town manager, Los Gatos' …
Sept. 21 will mark a significant milestone in transit history: the start of Caltrain's electrified service. This transition from the diesel fleet that has been used for decades to electric trains is a major step forward for sustainable transit in …
Emotions ran high at a homeless encampment near a San Jose park as the city began sweeping the streets that unhoused residents called home.
Two years ago, the city cleared the sprawling homeless encampment near Columbus Park that sits under …
Frustrated San Jose hotel workers launched a three-day strike over Labor Day weekend against the Signia and DoubleTree after more than two months of failed contract negotiations with Hilton Hotels & Resorts.
Unite Here Local 19 hotel workers in San …
East San Jose businesses are partnering with the city to launch a plan to drive more shoppers into the Tully Eastridge neighborhoods and breathe new life into its diverse economy.
The business owners want to create a Business Improvement District …
Santa Clara County’s unique identity and greatest strength is our diversity – a diverse economy, a diverse landscape and a rich diversity of cultures. As we live and work together it is through sharing our arts and culture practices and …
Some Little Saigon activists are in uproar after a San Jose councilmember's office changed the locks and the rules for reserving events at the Vietnamese Heritage Garden.
Councilmember Bien Doan announced those new rules last month after becoming the center …
Santa Clara Valley Water District has won its lawsuit against one of its directors who took thousands of pages of internal documents.
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Ellen E. Williams has ordered Valley Water Director Rebecca Eisenberg to return …
Advocates and politicians have worked for years to ban the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in San Jose. A new incentive could be the answer.
Although the state has banned the purchase of new gas leaf blowers as of this …
In what regional leaders call a first for American sports arenas, Levi’s Stadium will host World Cup matches and the Super Bowl in the same year — and the costs of making history are taking shape as Santa Clara officials …
The San Jose Chamber of Commerce building is in need of some urgent upgrades, and the organization has launched a foundation to raise the funds.
Built in 1942, the historic building that fronts the corner of West Santa Clara and …
Last year, a renovated San Jose hotel on The Alameda reopened with much fanfare to house homeless residents. But problems have cropped up from the start, according to people who live there.
The city tapped nonprofit HomeFirst to provide supportive …
There are no elections in Los Gatos this year because no one in town stepped up to challenge the incumbents, guaranteeing two councilmembers another four years in office.
Councilmembers Matthew Hudes and Maria Ristow are up for reelection, but with …
It’s cheaper to rent a home in San Jose than buy one, though renters still pay steep prices in one of the most costly cities in the nation.
A report by real estate platform Clever ranks San Jose as the …
Here's my message to Sam Liccardo — speak for yourself instead of using your supporters to do your dirty work.
You had your longtime supporter, Jonathan Padilla, ask for a recount “on behalf of Evan Low” and it backfired. Now …
The debate between using artificial turf or natural grass on government-owned athletic fields in Sunnyvale has been pushed into the future, leaving environmental activists and youth sports groups in limbo.
The Sunnyvale City Council declined to decide on banning artificial …
Arvind Kumar and his husband Ashok Jethanandani spend their Saturday mornings pulling weeds and protecting plants native to California, but not in their yard at home. Instead, they’ve spent the last 20 years volunteering at Lake Cunningham Park in their …
Most people agree that the best way to address our area’s housing affordability issue is straightforward: build more houses.
By some estimates, Silicon Valley’s housing market is at least 100,000 homes short of what is needed to arrest the inexorable …
Artificial intelligence lives and breathes thanks to tech innovators of the 1980s and 90s who saw Silicon Valley as the landscape to develop the more than trillion-dollar computer industry.
Though AI only recently entered the public vocabulary — with the …
