San Jose Inside

Business and cultural leaders say the Alum Rock area has potential to be the next downtown.

It’s been a busy – and successful – few weeks for San Jose homicide detectives. In a two-week period from July 30 through Aug. 12, city detectives arrested seven suspects, and cleared four homicide cases.

In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.

The San Jose Police Officers' Association released confidential videos of police officials that the union says reveal 'rampant corruption, falsehoods and incompetence.'

an José Code Enforcement will be issuing citations to the business owners and property owners for sales of cannabis products without proper licensing. 

The project is on the former site of the family-owned Wheel Works tire store. The joint effort of Maracor Development and The Pacific Cos. was first announced in 2022.

The former manager of Bear Creek Stables in Los Gatos, a popular South Bay horse riding ranch, was accused of failing to care for a horse that died from malnutrition and heat stroke last year.

Santa Clara County joined three other California counties in filing a consumer protection lawsuit against the nation’s largest retailer.

The independent body that redraws the state’s political maps isn’t perfect, but many Republicans prefer that to the gerrymander that Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to offset one proposed in Texas. 

County officials said the higher taxes are needed to close a projected billion-dollar budget shortfall that is the result of the federal government’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

San Jose city officials say outreach services to homeless individuals and food programs for low-income seniors will continue, using city funds if federal funding ends.

This Week in Silicon Valley is highlighted by the San Jose Jazz' Summer Jazz Fest at Plaza de César Chávez featuring world-class talent.

Hank Risan allegedly used more than $3.1million in fraudulently obtained funds to pay personal credit cards, purchase collectables, and make mortgage payments on his personal residence.

Obdulia Banuelos-Esparza avoids jail time and will have to pay $40,000 in restitution in a plea bargaining deal for demanding cash from a security firm in exchange for a fairgrounds contract.

The Police Records Access Project database, now available to the public, contains roughly 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases in California.