In an interview before returning to the U.S. Capitol, San Jose Rep. Zoe Lofgren discusses the year ahead.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein spoke Thursday night at the Naglee Park home of Karen and Richard Ajluni, an event attended by more than 30 persons, amongst which the local Palestinian American community was well represented. She was introduced by longtime nonprofit executive Ajluni, who cited the ongoing deaths of children in the current Middle East war and said that the two-party system would not change unless voters had the courage to walk away. Stein, sporting a black-and-white kaffiyeh draped around her neck, launched a blistering attack on the Democratic Party, accusing its leaders of selling out to large corporations and oil companies by failing to adequately address the climate crisis, suppressing progressive voices and complicity in what she repetitively described as a genocide.

Kihn toured the world and won a number of awards for his hit songs “Jeopardy,” “The Breakup Song,” “Remember” and “Lucky,” and was well known to Bay Area audiences as the morning radio host for KFOX for 17 years.

Ostensibly a manual to help future candidates to elective office understand what’s in store for them, it’s a bid to rehabilitate his reputation 18 years after his controversial mayorship ended.

Google’s chat bot equivocated on pedophilia, conservatives say, and ChatGPT gave husbands a pass on doing the dishes. Is AI ready to serve as our moral compass?

Shangri-La Construction took loans against state-funded housing projects, moved money into other bank accounts and left projects unfinished.

Spinning off parks from underfunded government departments to entities that work closely with them has created “a golden age” for urban parks.

Bluster and hubris at Silicon Valley Bank built a bank that damaged others along the way.

Prior to her election to the city council in June, Kamei served as a Morgan Hill planning commissioner, a trustee of the Santa Clara Valley Water district and a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Education.

In a Tuesday interview, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan discussed prioritizing public safety and accelerating housing construction to address the homelessness crisis.

San Jose, a million-person city in which a fifth of its residents choose the mayor, has a history of close elections. Only three of the past seven open elections could be called lopsided victories. The last time an open seat was decided in one round was 40 years ago, in 1982—the year 39-year-old Matt Mahan was born.

A recent political mailer accuses mayoral candidate Cindy Chavez of giving evasive answers to a grand jury 16 years ago. Is this true? We went back and counted again.

San Jose's venerable Fairmont has been reinvented as Signia, a new modern luxury concept hotel.

Sheriff Laurie Smith's election in 1998 as California’s first female sheriff signaled the end of the good old boys’ network, at least as appearances go.

The venerable Café Stritch will be reinvented as a new venue in the coming months as the keys are turned over to the jazz bar’s former general manager, Andrew Saman. The establishment will be known as Mama Kin, Saman says, and will continue to book jazz shows while expanding with other types of music.

Mahan enters a field to replace termed-out Mayor Sam Liccardo that includes fellow councilmembers Dev Davis and Raul Peralez.