The newly amended version of SB 50 has a crucial role to play in helping address our region’s affordability crisis.

Orchard City residents searching for someplace closer than San Jose to grab a Double-Double and Animal Fries are straight out of luck.

In Silicon Valley, we may pride ourselves on our progressive values, but we have more work to do to truly lead in this area.

The three-term supe irked some county officials by requesting a slew of grants that appear to some observers as politically motivated.

The 57-year-old high-tech program manager is up against Sergio Lopez for Campbell Council’s newly created District 2 seat.

Carol Hoffman, a local businesswoman, is running against self-described political strategist Sergio Lopez for the open seat.

With a new governor at the helm, the career lawmaker is ready to take another crack at bills vetoed time and again by past administrations.

Weed delivery services could be blooming soon in the South Bay since state officials lifted restrictions last month.

What started as a 25-page Google doc has led to Indivisible, a chain of regional groups that are rallying the nation’s anti-Trump resistance.

Days after the mass shooting at at a gay nightclub in Orlando, anger gave way to action as California lawmakers advanced a raft of gun laws.

If State Assemblyman Kansen Chu (D-San Jose) gets his way on daylight saving time, we'll never have to reset our clocks again.

A state lawmaker thinks there should be a warning label for potentially unconstitutional citizen initiatives, like the infamous "kill the gays" bill.

Evan Low has been able to cultivate an image as a phenom of the liberal left. But over the last couple years, the 32-year-old assemblyman has taken a more moderate stance on certain issues, to the chagrin of some of his earliest supporters.

Evan Low can host a blood drive, but can’t donate his own blood. Still, the openly gay mayor of Campbell and openly gay Vice Mayor Rich Waterman will lead an American Red Cross drive this afternoon—both for charity’s sake and to make a statement against the federal ban that prohibits men who admit to having sex with other men from giving blood.

Campbell’s reputation as a sleepy town once known for prunes and Western wear shops—and more recently for its Oktoberfest and Mardi Gras parties—might need an update, as it can now be argued that it has become one of the Bay Area’s hot spots for progressive politics.

Fly noticed a familiar, comely face in the corner of MercuryNews.com last week but was slightly confused to see a blue and orange PG&E logo where Evan Low’s dimple should be.

The trail-blazing, openly gay mayor of Campbell, shilling for PG&E? It turns out to be an ad for the much-maligned SmartMeter Program, the PG&E initiative to replace all old power meters with digital ones supposedly designed to provide more accurate readouts and give customers a better way to monitor their gas and electricity usage.