San Jose CA

(KRON) — Prosecutors charged a San Jose man with murder after he allegedly drove drunk the wrong way down a Sunnyvale street and killed a 52-year-old Mountain View woman who was on her way home from work. Brian Burke, 34, was driving a Ford F-150 pickup truck into oncoming traffic when he crashed head-on into […]

Looking for something useful without spending a dime? San Jose neighbors are giving away all kinds of free items this week — from furniture and home goods to pet supplies and moving boxes.

MongoDB is planting a bigger flag in Palo Alto, signing a lease for roughly 23,000 square feet at 490 California Avenue as new owners prep the building for a relaunch. The deal expands the New York based database company’s footprint on the Peninsula and hands the California Avenue corridor a marquee corporate tenant.

Indigenous knowledge systems and newer technologies merge in Inframundo, a speculative world designed by artist and researcher Miguel Novela. Born in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico and currently a lecturer at Stanford University, Novela invites visitors to look inward, and become a rock. He draws on the landscape shaped by cenotes, the natural sinkholes formed by the Chicxulub meteorite impact thought to be portals to...

Walking in doesn’t feel routine. Then the shelves keep going. A quick browse turns into slowing down. One section leads to another. Stacks of books, records, and unexpected finds start pulling attention in different directions. At some point, the plan to just look around quietly disappears. A different kind...

After months on the sidelines, Wah Jee Wah, one of the Bay Area's rare spots still cooking Indian street food skewers over live coals, is set to make a comeback this week in Milpitas. Chef-owner Ron Dumra is hauling his charcoal-grilled meats, vegetables and trademark skewers into a tight new address at 418 S. Main St., starting with dinner service only. When...

San Jose city officials on Wednesday began clearing a large homeless encampment on land near Coyote Creek and the Happy Hollow Zoo, an area once notorious as "The Jungle." City officials designated the area a "no encampment zone," citing requirements to reduce debris and pollutants from entering the nearby waterway.

Palo Alto’s City Council has signed off on one of the taller housing projects along El Camino Real, voting 6-0 yesterday to approve a seven-story, 321-unit apartment building at 3606 El Camino Real. The roughly 83-foot structure, which will feature a rooftop terrace and replace several existing uses on the block, is being hailed by city leaders as a badly...

Created in 2007, Hatsune Miku is one of the O.V.s original vocaloids, which are voice synthesizer software. A programmer enters the lyrics and melodies, and the software comes up with the song. AI music before that was a thing. Hatsune Miku’s voice was created with samples by Japanese actress Saki. But instead of having a faceless entity, it was decided Miku needed a face...

What started as a routine sweep along the Guadalupe River Bike Trail turned into a weapons-and-warrant arrest today, after San Jose officers checked out a tent pitched in a posted No Encampment Zone and found more than just camping gear inside. Officers from the San Jose Police Department’s Neighborhood Quality...