San Jose

Cruising was originally banned as a way to deter crime and traffic-related infractions from gatherings of cars slowly rolling down an urban street, but the Latino community looks at the ban as highly discriminatory, since cruising lowriders on city roads has been a part of the culture since the 1940s. 

Residents who waste water this spring and summer in Santa Clara County could face fines from water police for the first time ever.

Members of a historic church near San Jose State University are trying to stop it from being torn down and replaced with a new housing development.

The Silicon Valley shopping destination has now landed 100 new merchants in the wake of a $1.1 billion expansion and renovation that it had mostly completed two years ago.

The restoration of Hangar One at NASA Ames Research Center and Moffett Field in Mountain View has officially begun, a project that has been in the works for decades — but we still don't know what Google wants to use the building for.

The BART extension into downtown San Jose has hit another awkward moment after San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and officials with the Valley Transportation Authority, which is overseeing the project, were caught trying to keep an estimated $2 billion price increase on the project a secret.

A bitter battle looks to be underway over the future of the Gilroy Garlic Festival, and now has the current organizers and the man who wants to take it over lobbing heated accusations back and forth.

Some good news for fans of the La Victoria taqueria chain: The Hayward location has just reopened in a brand new space just half a mile away from the old La Victoria location.

The San Francisco startup Local Kitchens, which is basically a ghost kitchen that you can visit in person and functions as a "digital food hall," is opening a new location in Los Gatos this June, one in Campbell and one in Mill Valley this July, as the Business Times is reporting.

Tech workers and residents in North San Jose are about to get a new option for a convenient and tasty slice of pizza.

The South Bay’s biggest hotel is back open with new branding and new hope that it will trigger a post-pandemic recharge in business travel.

Nirvana Soul, the popular Black-owned coffeehouse in downtown San Jose that opened in 2020, is expanding to a location at 19700 Vallco Parkway in Cupertino

It’s been more than two years since cars have been able to drive down San Pedro Street in downtown San Jose and it appears that trend may last forever.

One of the South Bay’s most famous events, the Gilroy Garlic Festival, has been canceled indefinitely due to a variety of reasons, most of them financial.

The owner group of three popular downtown San Jose bars has just an inked a deal to expand on their already popular presence in the area.

Plans to totally transform St. James Park in downtown San Jose are moving forward amid a bitter battle.

The man accused of setting a massive fire in the lumber section of the South San Jose Home Depot store was publicly identified Tuesday as San Jose resident Dyllin Jaycruz Gogue.

Arya Steakhouse, a Persian restaurant owned by husband and wife restaurateur team Mike and Fera Hashemi, has been serving guests on Middlefield Road in Redwood City since 2012, and they're moving to new digs on University Avenue.