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Eight years ago, Santa Clara approved a policy to prohibit anyone from serving more than two terms on the city council or as mayor. But the city’s top political leader — Mayor Lisa Gillmor — might have broken that rule.
Special interest groups have sunk millions of dollars into November's Santa Clara city elections to decide its future government.
Santa Clara political observers worry that former officials are making moves to return to City Hall.
Alongside filling City Council seats, Santa Clara voters will need to pick their next police chief and city clerk on the November ballot.
Tensions on the Santa Clara City Council flared over how to officially respond to reports calling it “dysfunctional” and suggesting the city did a poor job negotiating its Levi’s Stadium contracts.
Santa Clara voters in November will weigh whether to replace half their elected officials and decide who should win a highly-competitive open seat.
Bond proceeds would pay for street, fire station, police, parks, storm drain and historic building projects across the city.
Santa Clara voters will decide in November whether to give the city roughly $400 million for various infrastructure fixes around the city.
For a decade, the 49ers have worked to help uplift the community surrounding the city the team calls home.
The owners of the Pruneridge Golf Club are teeing up hundreds of homes to be built alongside the nine-hole course — but first they must reconfigure it.
The Santa Clara City Council’s effectiveness is being called into question by a county civil grand jury report, alleging city officials' disagreements have made life worse for residents.
Youth sports nonprofits in Santa Clara are asking the city to drop its fees to book fields, and officials are looking for a compromise.
Santa Clara and the San Francisco 49ers have settled their last outstanding lawsuit after years of conflict, taking a step toward reconciliation.
Santa Clara’s housing plans are still out of compliance with the state, but the city hopes its newest draft will be the final effort.
Santa Clara has more than half a billion dollars in needed infrastructure improvements and officials hope residents will pay to get those projects done.
Over the next few days, the Santa Clara County Public Health Department will be conducting a door-to-door survey in Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy.
The San Francisco 49ers are offering Santa Clara a deal that would pour millions of dollars in city coffers, a last ditch effort by the NFL team to end litigation that’s dragged on for more than two years.
Bay Area sports organizers are starting to plan for two major events coming to the South Bay in 2026, and officials in one Silicon Valley city want their fair share of tourist dollars.
