Garbage haulers, cemetery operators and public safety unions spent heavily to hit Susan Ellenberg with attack mailers, to little effect.

A record-breaking 887,000 Santa Clara County residents have registered to vote in this year’s midterm election.

A mailer painting Rich Tran as a communist backfired by drawing fierce condemnation on whoever sent the offending literature.

Full-service satellite locations are open Monday, but closed on Election Day while 50 drop-off sites are available.

California’s school bond system amplifies existing inequities for the state’s public school students, a new analysis finds.

To create a more responsive government, we need to ensure that the public—and not powerful moneyed interests—are financing our elections.

Innovative thinking and political will must be combined in order to address and eliminate homelessness.

With the midterm elections just days away, a new poll shows that Californians are more passionate about voting this year.

Robert Varich has drawn criticism from fellow candidates for his controversial views on, among other things, arming teachers with guns.

With hundreds of millions of dollars rolling into initiative campaigns over housing and health care, California has hit a new record.

The rematch between Tam Nguyen and Maya Esparza could pave the path for how the city tackles its most pressing issues in coming years.

Prop. 8 would limit California’s dialysis clinics to 15 percent profit, and provide incentives for the operators to increase staffing.

The race for county supervisor pits a trustee of the South Bay’s largest school district against a councilman of Silicon Valley’s largest city.

Today marks the last chance to register for the 2018 midterm election, which takes place just 15 days from now.

The race to replace termed out San Jose Councilman Don Rocha in District 9 has narrowed down to two very different choices for voters.

A San Jose council candidate has denounced a political action committee’s attacks on her opponent as “horrible” and “ridiculous.”