Several Bay Area lawmakers have introduced legislation this year to tamp down on ICE by imposing more taxes on immigrant detention centers, enforcing more oversight and ensuring people can sue federal...

With the launch of a new housing voucher program, San Jose intends to strike two birds with one stone: Provide below-market rate homes downtown and stabilize a financially struggling residential compl...

A homelessness prevention program that began in Santa Clara County is expanding across the country.Nonprofit Destination: Home is partnering with 10 different organizations across the U.S. to bring re...

An East San Jose school district is laying off employees on the heels of declining enrollment, a budget deficit and school closures.

A San Jose development touted as the gold standard for prefabricated temporary housing has turned into a hornets’ nest fraught with problems. A total of six former and current workers claim Branham La...

After a successful push by community organizers, Santa Clara County officials have agreed to explore a reparations policy that could compensate Black residents for historic human rights violations and...

Congressman Sam Liccardo announced the Defense Commissary Agency — a U.S. Department of Defense agency — has reached an agreement to continue the Moffett Federal Airfield Commissary’s operations in Mo...

Santa Clara County Assessor Neysa Fligor’s election at the end of last year was a moment of simultaneous breakthroughs. Not only did Fligor become the first Black female county assessor in California,...

San Jose leaders say preliminary figures gauging the economic impact from Super Bowl 60 suggest a yearslong effort to prepare the city for the flood of new visitors has paid off. If they're correct, i...

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen is warning of threats to public safety as a $470 million county budget deficit will require his office to make “unprecedented” layoffs and department fu...

Santa Clara County homeowners and businesses will have to pay hundreds of dollars in fees to challenge how much they pay in property taxes every year.

Serial entrepreneur, classic car collectors, TV host, civic organizer — lifelong San Jose resident Mike Hennessy has worn a lot of hats over the years. Now, he said that wide-ranging experience has pr...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked California from enacting a law that would ban federal agents from wearing masks — but a similar policy in San Jose remains intact.

Public transit ridership to and from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara for the Super Bowl hit an all-time high with 30,000 trips — although not without a few bumps along the way.

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s moderate campaign for California governor has fared well with billionaires and tech moguls. But two progressive state lawmakers in his own backyard are less enthused.

Santa Clara County leaders are looking at a $470 million deficit in the upcoming fiscal year — forcing the largest midyear budget adjustment in more than a decade as they look to close $200 million of...

It’s a rare alignment of San Jose’s political stars: Two influential organizations on opposite sides of San Jose’s labor-business political divide have endorsed the same candidate in the District 7 Ci...

Santa Clara County's largest school district could close up to nine elementary schools due to declining enrollment — a game changer for the district as it redefines its future.

Billionaires and tech moguls are spending mountains of cash to catapult San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan to the front of the race for California governor.

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has bristled at being labeled right-leaning while stressing he's a lifelong Democrat. His hiring of a self-described conservative to run his California governor campaign coul...

From Peter Thiel-linked tech investors to the creator of "Law & Order," several notable people are gunning to vault San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s bid for California governor to frontrunner status — star...

A pilot program to reconnect homeless people in San Jose to family outside the city had minimal effect in the past year. Homeward Bound, proposed by Mayor Matt Mahan as another option to help get home...

Santa Clara County residents are breathing a collective sigh of relief as fears of federal immigration enforcement during the Super Bowl never materialized.

San Jose is easing restrictions on its local gambling industry as part of a months-long effort to lighten the regulatory burden placed on the city’s two card houses.

A political newcomer is leading the fundraising pack in the race for this year's sole open seat on the San Jose City Council, as incumbents in other districts raise funds to fend off rivals.

Santa Clara city officials have reaffirmed their support for immigrant communities ahead of Super Bowl 60 this weekend. The City Council passed a policy prohibiting the use of city property, such as p...

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan faced his first major test as a contender for California governor Tuesday during a televised debate. He was a primary target of candidates' jabs over his rising political pro...

Silicon Valley community and government leaders gathered to denounce the expected arrival of federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in the Bay Area during the upcoming Super B...

There's been local concern U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be out in force during the national sports event taking place Feb. 8 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.

San Jose wants to make it easier to convert its underused office buildings into housing with new financial incentives. Such conversions became an appealing option for addressing San Jose’s housing cri...

The clustered racks of Natasha’s Attic were bustling with Victorian noblemen and Renaissance fairies looking for their evening gowns for the last time. The building where the retail-rental costume sto...

Cities across Silicon Valley may be on the cusp of cutting ties with a surveillance company linked to local police departments' cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

As the clock ticks toward the Super Bowl, one Santa Clara County leader’s vow to arrest ICE agents may force officials across the valley to confront their own rhetoric — pitting local cops against fed...

After months of will-he-won’t-he speculation, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is launching a campaign for California governor. Over the past two years, even as Mahan has taken steps to extend his statewide ...

Santa Clara County leaders promised their voter-approved sales tax increase would save local public hospitals from closure. That commitment will now be tested.

For the second time in seven years, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Silicon Valley has found itself embroiled in a leadership dispute that has led to the sudden ouster and replacement of multiple boa...

There's been local concern U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be out in force during the national sports event taking place Feb. 8 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is all over national and statewide TV news stations, websites and flooding our social media feeds. The media circus is centered around his not-so-subtle hints that he might r...

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