Political donors have spent more than $1.6 million on three San Jose ballot measures and another $822,000 on three City Council contests.

Steve Brown is a special guy. How else to explain his position to allow businesses to discriminate against gay people? Then there’s his voter record.

Council candidate Steve Brown crashed a press conference convened to denounce his views on discrimination against the LGBTQ community.

District Attorney Jeff Rosen will deliver a presentation about his 2015 tour of German prisons, which are considered a model of progressivism.

Five years after Gov. Jerry Brown signed the FAIR Education Act, California’s public schools are now rolling LGBTQ history into the coursework.

More than 100 people gathered Monday night at San Jose City Hall for a candlelight vigil to honor victims of the Orlando terrorist attack.

Santa Clara County this week hired a developer to oversee construction of a 55-acre civic center in San Jose.

A new lawsuit alleges that the city of Gilroy broke the law when it approved the annexation of farmland for a planned 4000-home development.

Santa Clara County this week became the first in the nation to open an office of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer affairs.

Santa Clara County's Board of Supervisors has nominated Dave Cortese for a second year as board president.

In response to the beating death of a mentally ill inmate, Santa Clara County will make require crisis intervention training for sheriff’s deputies.

Don Edwards, who died last week at the age of 100, held a special place in the political prism of Silicon Valley.

Santa Clara picked Core Companies from three bidders to develop a six-acre plot. But support of one council member drew shaking heads in the process.

Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio's former chief of staff dropped his name from a sexual harassment lawsuit filed last fall.

No rest for the weary: Congressman Mike Honda spent his birthday weekend hopping from one fundraiser to the next.

Local leaders applauded the same-sex marriage ruling Friday, while social media lit up with celebratory tweets, status updates and rainbow memes.