The San Francisco 49ers and city of Santa Clara are in the midst of another legal battle this week, this time over whether the city had the authority to revoke the NFL team’s right to make purchases at Levi’s Stadium. Santa Clara officials, acting as the city’s Stadium Authority Board, this year effectively revoked the 49ers’...

Santa Clara city leaders on Tuesday approved the language set to appear on the March 3, 2020 ballot to split the city into districts for future voting following a tense discussion that at times turned to yelling and head-shaking from audience members. Now, the question of how the city will redistrict is in residents’ hands....

Frustrated Santa Clara leaders decided Tuesday to meet privately to sort out a recent audit that claims the former Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce owes the city nearly $580,000 for alleged over-billing while running the city’s convention center and the Convention-Visitor’s Bureau, or CVB. The report, by city-hired consultant TAP International, details about five years...

Santa Clara officials Tuesday night voted by a narrow margin to split the city up into three districts for future elections after more than two hours of tense discussion. Lawmakers mulled whether the city would be opening itself up to additional legal challenges through the move, or whether residents would be better represented with three...

Santa Clara is home to some of the largest real estate developments in the region, each poised to not only change the fabric of the South Bay city, but Silicon Valley as a whole. Throughout the city, more than 14 million square feet of office, 2.3 million square feet of retail, 2,000 hotel rooms and...

Santa Clara lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously approved a hefty $3.5 million settlement agreement with the family of a Santa Clara woman who was struck by an Amtrak train at the Lafayette Street and Agnew Road intersection in Jan. 2017. On the morning of Jan. 13, 2017, Bridget Lo was driving eastbound on Agnew Road when she...

Santa Clara officials on Tuesday night discussed details around a complex and long-anticipated project called Related Santa Clara — formerly known as CityPlace — and will bring back a potentially precedent-setting discussion on affordable housing in the city. City councilmembers are expected to approve shuffling around some money for a traffic improvement funding plan for...

Santa Clara has waffled for years on how to handle its City Council elections, fielding a failed ballot measure and a lawsuit in the process, but a committee formed to put those matters to rest made some critical decisions on the matter Thursday night. Santa Clara’s Charter Review Committee worked out the details of its...

Changes are on the way for Santa Clara when it comes to residential rental rules, including short-term rentals made popular by websites like Airbnb. City elected leaders and planning commission members this month discussed changes for rentals that could affect how many people can rent a single-family home and create first time rules around short-term...