After a month of pressure and community outcry, Mayor Sam Liccardo on Monday quietly dropped his push for a ‘strong mayor’ initiative that would extend his term by two years and increase his powers. In a memo released Monday —  a day before the San Jose City Council was set to vote on the controversial...

Sunday was not a day of rest in downtown San Jose. Instead, a faith-based coalition of South Bay community leaders lept into action, recounting personal histories with law enforcement and reimagining public safety in San Jose. Dozens of attendees and thousands of online viewers listened to speeches from Santa Clara County organizations, including the NAACP, CAIR,...

An officer involved with a traffic stop that ended with a woman being kicked and dragged through the parking lot of a San Jose McDonald’s was put on administrative leave on Friday. San Jose resident Josh Gil shot the video Wednesday while picking up a DoorDash order. He said he was organizing the meals he...

As COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement have cast renewed focus on racial inequities plaguing San Jose for years, some say redistricting has the potential to improve or compromise representation for the city’s most disenfranchised residents. After the completion of the U.S. Census every decade, the City Council must appoint a redistricting committee to redraw the...

With more than half the households in San Jose speaking a language other than English, the nation’s 10th largest city doesn’t have full-time staff dedicated to translation and interpretation at City Hall. Without full-time translators on staff, San Jose Councilmember Magdalena Carrasco, whose constituents include many monolingual Spanish speakers, has come to expect her own...