San Jose CA

If you are feeding a houseful of kids on a Tuesday night in East San Jose, you do not need a tasting menu. You need a taqueria that fills three hungry plates, keeps the little ones happy, and hands you change back from a fifty. The Story Road, Alum Rock, and South White corridors are still packed with spots that do exactly that, and...

The cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale each owe $1,178,400 in civil penalties following multiple violations of the national Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act, passed in 1972, regulates water quality and makes pollutant discharge illegal in U.S. waters. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, this law also includes the discharge of oil or other hazardous substances, as well as failure to...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods said this week that the constitutional right to counsel is “effectively dead” if judges can dictate public defender caseloads and punish attorneys who refuse workloads they believe violate ethical and constitutional standards. Woods, the first Black public defender...

Nearly eight years after two men were fatally shot during a late-night altercation at a private Halloween party in East Palo Alto, the suspect, who reportedly fled to Mexico after the shooting, has returned to face justice. The shooting happened around 3 am on October 14, 2018 outside an East...

Police in San Jose are investigating a deadly collision in a residential area Wednesday afternoon that neighbors said claimed the life of a child.

A San Benito sheriff’s deputy, 31-year-old Ryan Miller, faces felony and misdemeanor charges on suspicion of lending a teenager an assault rifle on Feb. 21.

Quick outings from Sunnyvale with real panoramas — flat marsh loops on the water, short ridge climbs above it. If you only have a Sunday morning before solo coffee, the South Bay actually delivers. All seven of these trailheads are 10–30 minutes from Sunnyvale, and every one of them has a proper Bay view — not "trees with a hint of water," but the actual...

As San Jose sweeps its last large homeless encampment known as “the Jungle,” some residents say the city has reneged on its promises of housing. City officials claimed they had shelter beds for all 109 residents who originally lived at the East San Jose homeless camp across from Happy Hollow Park and Zoo. Camp residents... The post San Jose homeless residents fall through the...

San Jose woke up today to a gray start and a cool 55°F at Mineta San José International Airport, with steady rain already on tap. That early soaking is expected to shift to scattered showers and a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon and evening, with brief heavy downpours in the mix. Most neighborhoods are in line for about a quarter to a half...

You want a Saturday night that actually feels like one. The Peninsula quietly punches above its weight — between Menlo Park, Palo Alto, and Woodside, you have Michelin stars, eight-seat omakase counters, and tasting menus built on farm produce grown a few miles from the table. Here's where to book.