Though Palantir’s work with the county has an altruistic aim, some worry about its role in other controversial law enforcement contracts.

The Palo Alto City Council voted unanimously to allocate $3 million to subsidize as many as 120 sub-market-rate rental units for teachers.  

A rally and walk held Sunday in Palo Alto brought renewed attention to a constitutional amendment to guarantee women have equal rights.

A mobile home park in Palo Alto that faced closure, which would have displaced hundreds residents, will remain open for now.

The SBLC has seen better days. There’s always the next crop of political stars to groom, but managing endorsements has proven a challenge.

A years-long probe into bribery at the VA offices in Palo Alto resulted in seven people receiving sentences ranging from probation to prison time.

Owners of a Palo Alto mobile home park say the city violated their rights by requiring them to pay $8 million to relocate 400-plus tenants.

Amid national outrage over police violence and its inequitable toll on black lives, San Jose has committed to ramping up anti-bias training for its own officers.

With more voters casting ballots by mail, Santa Clara County may start offering prepaid postage as soon as this fall.

Peninsula politicos received an unexpected surprise earlier this week, when word began to spread that Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park) was throwing his support behind Marc Berman in his run for the State Assembly's 24th District seat.

Seven months after being forced out as San Jose's city manager, Ed Shikada is set to accept a permanent role as assistant city manager in Palo Alto.

A developer's petition to rezone an industrial property for housing has elicited full-throated opposition from city officials worried about San Jose's jobs-to-housing imbalance.

Tenants of Oak Crest Estates mobile home park in north San Jose say landlords are trying to skirt rent control by passing off maintenance costs as service upgrades.

Palo Alto's only remaining mobile home park faces closure, which would force out hundreds of mostly low-income residents. But Santa Clara County's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider putting up $8 million in seed money to help save the community.

We support three Palo Alto measures: one to modernize the utility tax, another to up the hotel tax and one to shrink the size of the City Council.

Santa Clara County may extend its moratorium on medical marijuana collectives until it comes up with a plan to regulate them—or ban them altogether.