Google is eyeing San Jose’s most prized real estate for development, which could bring thousands of new jobs and create a mass transit hub.

As part of a just-launched initiative, the city is asking the private sector for ideas about how to leverage autonomous vehicles.

Today, Americans observe what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's 88th birthday by using their time off as a day of service.

Big Oil took a hit earlier this month, when the San Luis Obispo Planning Commission rejected an oil-by-rail plan that has garnered concerns.

San Jose gave the green light to the largest development investment in downtown history, which will anchor the city's nascent Diridon district.

San Jose has released its wish list of projects for a 30-year half-cent sales tax measure slated for the fall ballot.

The VTA will dump a contractor after permitting issues and a busted gas line put a major project behind schedule and over budget.

A group of South Bay residents plan to rally against a proposed refinery expansion that would route oil trains directly through San Jose.

Residents, elected officials and environmental activists are painting a doomsday scenario of what an accident involving the proposed Phillips 66 oil trains would look like in downtown San Jose.

A curious cultural taboo has been openly flouted over the last two decades in San Jose, and it seems one local institution could soon double down.

In a deal reached Thursday with the Oakland Athletics, San Jose just bought more time to try wooing the team to a new ballpark in downtown.

A blueprint to transform San Jose's main transit station into a bustling development and hub for future BART and high-speed rail trains come up for a vote Tuesday.

After months of outreach trying to get restaurants used to the idea, the city’s moving ahead with its ban on Styrofoam-style take-out containers, a uniquely problematic type of litter because of the way expanded polystyrene (EPS) breaks apart and infiltrates the region’s waterways. On Tuesday, the City Council will discuss the controversial ban slated to go into effect Jan. 1. Other items on Tuesday’s agenda include a jobs development program with Work2Future and a service agreement with the San Jose Downtown Association.