Silicon Valley, like many communities across the nation, is observing Memorial Day with somber speeches, ceremonies and flag planting at cemeteries.

After three years of emotional pleas and legal wrangling, the fate of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park comes down to a final vote.

In an unusual set of circumstances, Jon Gundry, Santa Clara County’s superintendent of schools, has recommended a quarter-million dollar contract with a mystery company that has no online presence.

Two friends have opened San Jose's first-ever cat cafe, called The Dancing Cat, to promote adoptions for local shelters.

Santa Clara City Council rejected a $3 million gift from the San Francisco 49ers after a dispute over some youth soccer fields.

The legal age to buy cigarettes may soon level up to the drinking age—at least for unincorporated Santa Clara County.

San Jose could create a dedicated oversight office for local medical marijuana collectives, much like the Division of Gaming Control that monitors the city's two casinos.

After several delays and stalled pilot programs, the city of San Jose and its police union have reached an agreement that should lead to all officers being equipped with body-worn cameras by next summer.

Good Karma Bikes is part of a growing number of groups in Silicon Valley to merge cycling and social justice, or treat them as though they were always connected.

The longstanding perception that San Jose police disproportionately target certain racial minorities was confirmed last week. While African Americans and Latinos make up about a third of the city, they account for two-thirds of traffic stops.

As San Jose's burgeoning rents price out longtime residents, force some into homelessness and others to double-up with parents in multi-generational households, city officials are talking about how to bolster local regulations to help tenants.

The Santa Clara County Office of Education on Tuesday announced the appointment of Rosemary Kamei to fill a vacant board seat.

City officials will consider reducing local speed limits and ramping up enforcement to curb traffic fatalities, which rival the annual number of homicides in San Jose.

Santa Clara County won’t get the secret cell phone spying technology Sheriff Laurie Smith has been pushing the last year.

A rare conviction of an East San Jose woman who admitted to illegal animal trafficking highlights the challenges in stopping the illicit wildlife trade.

Just last weekend, a bystander recorded a group of San Jose police officers wailing on a 22-year-old man in San Jose’s East Side. While the circumstances of the arrest are under review, the video has gone viral.