Downtown San Jose Parking Rates On The Rise
Soon drivers will have to open their wallets a little wider to park in downtown San Jose after the city council has approved a 33 percent rate increase at downtown garages.
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Soon drivers will have to open their wallets a little wider to park in downtown San Jose after the city council has approved a 33 percent rate increase at downtown garages.
The California Attorney General thinks a plan by Mayor Chuck Reed to lower pensions costs in San Jose by declaring a fiscal state of emergency may be on shaky legal footing.
A five-alarm fire destroyed a fraternity house near San Jose State University early Tuesday morning, displacing 28 people.
In approving the mayor's budget plan, San Jose city officials have put off the possibility of declaring a fiscal emergency so that they can further work with unions on pension reform.
At some Vietnamese cafes in San Jose, they are grinding more than just coffee beans. In certain establishments, waitresses are wearing next to nothing.
The staffing problems within SJPD only stand to get worse, with more than 100 officers expected to be laid off in late June because of San Jose's budget problems.
Decorated with a giant ribbon and bow, the 75,000 square foot building estimated at $9 million is a gift from the Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
Several lanes of southbound Interstate Highway 680 in San Jose were blocked Monday morning as crews cleaned up pesticides spilled in a crash, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A San Jose man was killed and another injured early Saturday after a high-speed chase ended with a crash into a tanker truck, according to police.
A somewhat controversial shopping center in East San Jose finally opened to the public on Saturday.
A mortgage modification event being held this week at the San Jose Convention Center represents a last ditch- effort for hundreds of homeowners keep the roofs over their heads.
Gov. Jerry Brown's veto of the spending bills passed by the Democrats does not go far enough to protect local control of redevelopment money that California cities depend on, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed said Thursday.
Despite the uncertainty over state funding, schools in the San Jose Unified School District will be in session for a full 180 days and there will be no teacher furloughs.
A teacher in San Jose was arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a child, police announced Tuesday.
A new grand jury report is calling for fire agencies in Santa Clara County to re-evaluate how they are doing business.
San Jose's new budget was a big blow to public safety services, with over 100 police officers being laid off. But it's better news for the fire department, which is now rehiring nearly 50 firefighters thanks to money from the feds.
Government has helped nurture new business since the Great Depression, but is now withdrawing from that role, a leading ethnic Chamber of Commerce official said Wednesday.
A new study indicates trace amounts of NDMA, a potentially dangerous chemical that is believed to cause cancer, in San Jose groundwater.
San Jose's city manager announced that the police officers' union has agreed to a ten percent pay reduction during the next fiscal year.
Authorities said Tuesday morning that one person was killed and three others injured during an overnight shooting in San Jose.
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In May, San Jose received about $17,000 from a half dozen marijuana collectives, down from nearly $300,000 in March and April.
There was no immediate comment from the union behind the mailer, but other city employee unions have subsequently been quoted as saying the do not want to be "lumped in" with this.
Police are investigating a shooting that injured a man in the East Foothills neighborhood of San Jose early Sunday morning.
The coroner has identified the victim in San Jose's 26th homicide of the year. Community leaders in San Jose are calling for police reforms, as the city's homicide rate is on track to be the highest since the 1980s.
