March 12, 2021 SF Man Charged With Hate Crime After Attack on Asian Woman at San Jose’s Diridon Station By Jennifer Wadsworth Johan Strydom’s arraignment is set for 1:30pm today in Department 24 of the Santa Clara County Hall of Justice. Read More 28
March 6, 2021 SJ’s Iconic Fairmont Hotel Files For Chapter 11, Closes For Now By Bay City News The hotel abruptly ceased operations Friday, relocating its few remaining guests to rooms at nearby hotels. Read More 26
March 5, 2021 Crews Respond to Two-Alarm Fire in Downtown San Jose By Bay City News The blaze, near the Guadalupe Freeway, has closed West St. John Street between Almaden Boulevard and North Autumn Street. Read More 1
February 18, 2021 Italian-Colombian Fusion Eatery and Bakery Opens in DTSJ By Janice Bitters Natural Sweet opened Feb. 1 inside San Jose's SoFA Market, joining a growing list of downtown restaurants that have opened in the pandemic. Read More 5
February 10, 2021 San Jose Again Mulls Scrapping Highrise Fire Safety Code By Jennifer Wadsworth Without air-refilling stations in San Jose’s highrises, firefighters say they’d have to lug metal oxygen tanks up flight after flight of stairs. Read More 24
February 9, 2021 Police Investigate Early Morning Murder in San Jose By Bay City News The San Jose Police Department this morning reported one adult male homicide victim with unknown suspects or motive. Read More 1
February 3, 2021 San Jose PD Asks for Public’s Help ID’ing Hit-and-Run Suspect By Silicon Valley Newsroom Police urge anyone with information about the incident to call the department’s Traffic Unit at 408.277.4654. Read More 9
February 3, 2021 Food Halls’ Draw Has Always Been Foot Traffic, But Coronavirus Changed That By Grace Stetson The South Bay’s food halls have seen better days—but there may be some hope on the horizon. Read More 0
February 1, 2021 San Jose Mayor Recommends Removal of Thomas Fallon Statue By Jennifer Wadsworth The decision comes after a public forum on the statue’s fate in which community members criticized it as a glorification of colonialism. Read More 33
January 21, 2021 Op-Ed: Parklets Should Be Open to All—Not Just Customers By Gil Rodan Communally managed parklets would allow businesses to operate during the pandemic and keep public land in the hands of the public. Read More 5
January 16, 2021 New Gastro Lounge Prepares to Open in SJ’s SoFA District By Katie Lauer Good Spot is one part of a major transformation in downtown, including a wave of new business moving into the SoFA District while others shutter. Read More 0
January 11, 2021 Weekend Homicides Mark San Jose’s First Two of New Year By Bay City News There are no suspects identified yet in either shooting, police said, asking anyone with information to contact the Homicide Unit. Read More 0
January 7, 2021 UPDATE: Four-Alarm Fire Burns in Downtown San Jose By Silicon Valley Newsroom The flames engulfed a vacant building on San Fernando Street. Read More 0
December 24, 2020 How a Monthly Skate Night Turned into Activism in San Jose By Katie Lauer Not everyone loves sharing the road with this colorful cadre of wheeled activists, but the feeling is mostly mutual—and that’s the point. Read More 7
December 21, 2020 Pizzetta 408, Other Downtown Storefronts to Close for Good By Janice Bitters Three restaurants have declined to renew their leases in the SoFA Market food hall, and other downtown restaurants have called it quits. Read More 11
December 21, 2020 Op-Ed: Nurse-Patient Ratios Aren’t Just a Numbers Game—They’re About Safety By Jessica Smits Now is the time for hospitals to protect nurses so that they can continue to provide this work—work that puts them on the front lines of a pandemic. Read More 4