Six-term Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith held a press conference Tuesday in response to calls to resign from San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, and she says she will not be stepping down.

A homeless encampment is growing on a property owned by Apple in North San Jose, and the site off Component Drive could soon see the arrival of even more residents if nothing is done soon. 

San Jose City Hall is back open for in-person business, including City Council meetings which started up again this week inside the chambers.

There’s growing controversy surrounding the mayor of San Jose, Sam Liccardo, and his alleged inappropriate use of public and private email accounts.

Two 1,000-square-foot digital billboards are set to be built along Highway 101 near Mineta San Jose International Airport, and crews will need to cut down 43 trees to make room for them.

Other cities have tried it, and now the city of Mountain View is in the spotlight after the ACLU and the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley launched a new class-action lawsuit over its law banning RV parking.

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, a three-term incumbent, will face his first opponent in the upcoming 2022 election.

The toughest enforcement of COVID-19 health orders in the Bay Area was in Santa Clara County, which fined around 400 businesses a combined $6 million. Now, the county is hearing appeals from those businesses — and the process is raising serious questions among critics about the consistency and fairness of the enforcement.

This week, Santa Cruz is dispersing several encampments located near highways while discussing city policy on camping in general, putting its homelessness problem again in the spotlight.

Since 2018, the city of Palo Alto has been enforcing stringent parking restrictions on people living in motorhomes and vans on El Camino Real, and this week the debate about the parking enforcement has resurfaced.

Santa Clara County representatives push to allocate COVID-19 vaccines by census tract in a bid to address disparities that disproportionately impact communities of color.

Phil Reynolds, an elected member of the Santa Clara County Republican Central Committee, is under pressure from Democratic leaders in Santa Clara to resign after posting "The war has begun!" on Facebook while the pro-Trump rioters were breaking into the Capitol Building in Washinton, D.C. last week.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo waited until the second to last day possible to deliver his city-required, annual State of the City address. The speech happened virtually and was originally supposed to occur in the spring but was put on hold because of the pandemic.