Rep. Mike Honda’s congressional ethics probe is nearing its first birthday, so he’s chosen to create a trust fund.

Rep. Mike Honda held a karaoke fundraiser last month. But the nonprofit exec who hosted the event might have violated IRS rules on political campaigning.

Never shy to whisk the pot, San Jose Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio has enraged some of his potential successors.

Democrats sparred this past weekend in San Jose, host of this year’s state party convention, and there was no shortage of shenanigans.

San Jose Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio took just about everyone off guard when he filed papers last week to run for Congress against Rep. Mike Honda.

High-stakes power struggles will play out in San Jose this weekend at the California Democratic Party’s political convention.

Rep. Mike Honda’s campaign spent $101,000 to defend against a House ethics investigation. And he may have manipulated the timing of certain bills.

Last week we ran through the biggest stores of 2015 in our annual Year in Review. As we pivot to a New Year, here's a look at the stories to come.

A year in review is rarely pretty, and 2015 was no exception. Here’s a brief list of the some of the biggest stories that made it a year to remember, and soon leave behind.

Earlier this month, an enveloped arrived containing what appears to be Rep. Mike Honda's "1,000 Cranes" list, the million-dollar Rolodex of top donors.

As the world reels from terrorist attacks in Paris, Bay Area leaders have urged the U.S. to help Syrian refugees escaping a common enemy.

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

Perhaps most damning of the allegations against Congressman Mike Honda, constituent services to biggest donors were leveraged for campaign donations. Meanwhile, regular constituents with real problems, like Larry Sacks of Santa Clara, were ignored.

Just six days after the House Committee on Ethics extended its investigation into Mike Honda, his campaign appears to have broken another law.

Rep. Mike Honda (D-San Jose) is under fire after his legislative staff became a runaway train, transforming itself into a campaign squadron to fend off a 2014 election challenge by Ro Khanna.

Documents released Thursday suggest Rep. Mike Honda's office viewed official business as a commodity to be sold in exchange for campaign support. We combed through the documents to pull out the biggest findings.