Is this finally San Jose’s moment for downtown to realize its potential as a vital and beautiful urban community?

Neighbors rally in support of Christine Blasey Ford to counteract the hate mail and violent threats that the Palo Alto professor has received.

San Jose officials are debating a few measures to bring to voters this fall, including a bond measure and some charter amendments.

Mountain View plans to update a business tax for the first time in 64 years, which would require Google to pick up most of the tab. 

The city of Mountain View will host a forum on Wednesday to discuss the limits on our right to free expression.

Residents and local officials gathered at the Mountain View Senior Center on Saturday for the region’s first listening forum on LGBTQ issues.

The proposed Diridon Station Googleplex has San Jose officials seeing dollar signs while local businesses, residents suspect the end is nigh.

Silicon Valley prides itself on innovation, but the industry’s growth in the Bay Area perpetuates suburban sprawl and drawn-out commutes.

The Santa Clara Valley Water District plans to flatten trees and dig a huge flood basin in a heavily visited open space preserve. The project is a fraud.

British ex-pat Simon Brooks stumbled into the cleaning business after a failed tech venture left him broke and homeless in Silicon Valley.

A proposal to regulate surveillance technology on the county level comes up for consideration at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.

Mountain View has no rent control, leaving many long-time residents feeling helpless as housing costs have skyrocketed. While the city has subsidized construction of hundreds of affordable units since 2005, using below-market-rates in lieu of fees from developers, it’s not doing enough to meet the needs of thousands of residents struggling financially, according to housing activists.

Stupid local laws and the rise of unfettered independent expenditure committees are making a mockery of the election process. Candidates are no longer in control of their own messages and in many local races they are not relevant to the debate.

While Mountain View considers upping the hourly minimum wage from $9 to $10.15, activists are saying that's not enough.

The United States border patrol on Tuesday detained journalist and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas, the country's highest-profile undocumented immigrant.

President Obama delivered a passionate, if not brief, speech about energy efficiency Friday at a Walmart in Mountain View.