A new study suggests that rising construction costs may hinder housing development in San Jose, which already faces an affordability crisis.

Sam Liccardo touted the city’s collaborative ethos and acknowledged its struggle to address housing affordability in his annual address.

The future of longtime yoga studio in San Jose has suddenly been thrown into doubt, prompting its owner to ask the city for help.

San Jose rejected plans to build affordable housing for teachers because it would use up valuable land reserved for jobs.

One of San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo’s top aides is bemoaning how owners of a commercial complex are pulling a bait-and-switch.

After receiving a $150,000 grant from the Knight Cities Challenge, San Jose has hired a new city designer in Timothy Rood.

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.

When Super Bowl 50 packed up and left, the conversation centered not so much on the game but on how the Bay Area handled the cavalcade.

Making San Jose easier to swallow for Middle America’s diabetic masses shouldn't involve sanitizing the streets of local color.

San Jose will consider exempting high-rise developments from a year-old law designed to increase the supply of affordable housing.

Definitely makes for a wild week when the dullest thing to go down at San Jose’s City Hall was a bomb threat.

San Jose Inside has confirmed with multiple sources that Ed Shikada will resign from his post as city manager, the top appointed position in the city. (UPDATE: The city manager announced his resignation in an email to staff Wednesday afternoon.)

The Mercury News will return to downtown San Jose, the newspaper announced Thursday in a deliciously meta article of self-praise. But the adulation of the expected move isn't the real takeaway from this story. The real takeaway is a sweetheart parking deal.

All work and no play makes Kansen Chu a dull councilmember. Back in March, the representative for San Jose’s Berryessa district (and 2014 State Assembly candidate) took a trip with his wife—on the city’s dime—to Yosemite National Park to attend the 22nd Annual Ahwahnee Conference for Local Elected Officials. What initially caught Fly’s attention was the conference, titled “Building Livable Communities: New Strategies for a New Age,” was sponsored by a who’s who of who-cares-about-the-environment: PG&E, San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison Company and the Southern California Gas Company. But a closer look at Councilman Chu’s expense report shows he barely attended the event, despite shelling out $809.54 of taxpayer dollars.

Developers will break ground Wednesday on a Whole Foods Market on The Alameda, one that comes with a rooftop microbrewery.

Since slashing construction fees for high-rise development in downtown, two towers have broken ground, including the $135 million 23-story project at One South Market. Hoping to spur more nearby development, the City Council on Tuesday will consider whether to vote in a similar half-off discount for buildings of any size as long as they create jobs. Other items on the agenda for the first council meeting of the 2013-114 fiscal year include another look at building restriction height around the airport, a potential study of the city’s sewer system and an update on the city’s graffiti abatement contract.