San Jose

Santa Cruz County civic leaders have been voting to appoint nominees to the California Coastal Commission behind closed doors, violating a state law that requires such proceedings be public, according to the Santa Cruz Lookout.

A chic new Spanish tapas restaurant has opened in Silicon Valley. Vida Tapas has now started serving customers in downtown Mountain View, taking over the space formerly occupied by Xanh Vietnamese at 110 Castro Street.

Google’s ultra-ambitious Downtown West development in downtown San Jose is facing some obstacles that have thrown the long timeline for the housing and office project into reassessment mode.

It’s now been one full week since the CEO of a South Bay development company has eaten.

Santa Clara County just conducted its federally mandated "point-in-time" homeless census, which is typically conducted every two years, out of sync with every other Bay Area county.

Police response times in the city of San Jose are not getting any faster and are falling well short of policing goals.

A real estate firm based in China is causing some major frustrations in San Jose because of a lack of action on a few major development projects. The drama comes after a top executive for Z&L Properties was arrested in London over a bribery and corruption case in San Francisco.

Popular Vietnamese supermarket Dai Thanh, which sold off a downtown San Jose property in 2021 for a pretty penny, has now opened the second of two new locations, this one on North Capitol Avenue in the Berryessa district. 

The city of San Jose is poised to add 32,000 new homes in the northern part of town over the next several years.

In an effort to save space and reduce its dependability on cars, San Jose has become the biggest city in the U.S. to eliminate minimum parking requirements for new developments.

Sam’s Downtown Feed & Pet Supply, at 759 West San Carlos Street, first opened in 1986, but the legacy of the family who runs the pet and farm supply store is more than 150 years old, and it once housed a basement speakeasy.

Acclaimed Bay Area bagel shop Boichik Bagels, which got national recognition as being among the best in the country, even compared to New York City standards, has opened a new outpost on the Peninsula.

A massive late-night fire has destroyed a piece of San Jose’s history, as the 154-year-old Graves Mansion went up in flames.

The Valley Transportation Authority could activate the eminent domain process as soon as this week to push ahead with the still-very-far-off BART extension project in San Jose.

The 2022 World Cup is here, and over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the San Jose Earthquakes are hosting a World Cup street party at San Pedro Square, complete with giant outdoor screens and all-ages activities. The club is also hosting watch parties at area pubs throughout the whole month-long tournament. (Warning: You'll have to hit the bar at 5 a.m. to catch some games!)

Even more questions are now swirling in the investigation surrounding a controversial video released last month of a bikini-clad woman getting out of a San Jose Fire Department engine and walking into the Pink Poodle strip club.

The San Jose Mayor’s race has finally been decided, a week and change after Election Day, with rookie City Councilmember Matt Mahan barely edging out a veteran politician in the South Bay and current Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez.

San Jose police issued an astronomical 720 citations at an illegal weekend sideshow, and they are now revealing the new tactic that allowed them to bust so many stunt drivers and spectators.