District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced on Monday that his office will not file domestic violence charges against San Francisco 49ers defensive tackle Ray McDonald, citing a lack of evidence.

Rep. Mike Honda (D-San Jose) said the latest vote totals in his Congressional battle with Ro Khanna show an "insurmountable lead," so he declared victory Friday in the bitter, expensive showdown for Silicon Valley's House seat.

There’s a lot riding on Election Day in Silicon Valley. Here's a breakdown of some locals races and where each candidate is expected to spend their night partying/crying into their drink.

Santa Clara County may enact a health ordinance to protect nail technicians, who work long hours around toxic chemicals. About 80 percent of the 7,200 registered nail technicians in the county are Vietnamese. The vast majority are immigrant women, around childbearing age, who report headaches, pregnancy complications and other health problems because of the work they do.

Five years since signing a lease agreement with the hope of relocating the Oakland A's to a new ballpark in downtown San Jose, the City Council is poised to renew the land-holding deal for another seven years. Still, prospects of the team moving 40 miles south remain uncertain.

John Vartanian, recently fired by the county for running a travel rewards-skimming racket, could get another high-paying job with his former employer, albeit one less lucrative than the $235,000 annual salary he took home as head of the Department of Child Support Services.

A violent episode from Chris Zhang's past has forced the Cupertino school board candidate to talk about whether it’s even appropriate that he run for elected office.

In a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, an aviation expert calls San Jose’s airport curfew insulting, and wonders why city leaders can’t get residents to put up with the noise, like they do in Oakland and San Francisco.

An initiative that would repeal San Jose’s new medical marijuana regulations garnered enough signatures to make it to the ballot.

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed on Wednesday called for a federal investigation into accusations that the police union president abused his authority by thwarting the city’s recruitment efforts. A day later, Reed and his political consultant found themselves on the receiving end of calls for an inquiry.

When the next big earthquake strikes, hundreds of buildings in Silicon Valley are prone to collapse. Yet unlike other major Bay Area cities that have adopted policies to incentivize seismic retrofitting—namely Oakland, San Francisco, Berkeley and Fremont—San Jose has done nothing to fix the problem. A group of City Council officials want to create a program, similar to those in Oakland and San Francisco, encouraging property owners to make their buildings sturdier.

Santa Clara County announced that it "released" John Vartanian from his position of director of the Department of Child Support Services.

San Jose may update its procurement card policies to keep employees in check, after a recent audit found several examples of overspending.

A report about the cost of living in Silicon Valley goes before the Board of Supervisors next week. Also on the agenda: a "living wage" ordinance, pro bono legal help for migrant children and a digital security program proposed by Supervisor Joe Simitian.

Closing time has come and gone for about 30 pot clubs in San Jose since the city passed a sweeping regulatory program over the summer. Judging by a database of permit applications from the city, at least a couple-dozen more will fall under the axe in the coming months.

Just weeks after the Santa Clara Registrar of Voters re-printed a slew of sample ballots missing entire races and candidate info, the agency has to deal with another batch of faulty election literature.