San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo joined labor leaders to tout the measure as a fix for the city’s short-staffed police force.

San Jose’s Ethics Commission dismissed charges against 20 candidates and City Council members who unwittingly broke local election laws.

San Jose’s Ethics Commission has launched an investigation into dozens of elected leaders and candidates who flouted local election law.

San Jose’s City Clerk barely squeaked by with her job after coming under fire for misguiding candidates about local election law.

As housing costs soar and incomes remain relatively stagnant, San Jose aims to pass a new rent control ordinance by the start of 2016.

The sudden realization that most of San Jose’s lawmakers are law breakers is not the best way to end summer vacation. Not that they intended to end up on the wrong side of the law, of course.

To encourage entrepreneurship and bring businesses into compliance, the city of San Jose may suspend permitting fees for all street vendors.

The special election race for San Jose’s District 4 council seat has taken a turn for the confounding. Another batch of error-laden absentee ballots went out Monday, only this time Santa Clara County’s Registrar of Voters might not be to blame.

Vietnamese media exec Manh Nguyen held on to his fundraising lead in San Jose’s special election for the District 4 council seat. But Bob Dhillon, a retired realtor, has also tallied impressive numbers with just a week until absentee ballots can be cast.

Almost all people at City Hall can talk about Friday is “The Interview,” but it has nothing to do with catty Sony execs, sensitive North Korean dictators or a movie that looks terrible on its face.