What would’ve been a routine nomination erupted into a political brawl between county Assessor Larry Stone and Supervisor Dave Cortese.

Santa Clara County is one of just 17 in California that offer campaign finance records in easily analyzed online forms. Here's what they show.

On Monday, authorities reissued a $100,000 reward in connection to the 1994 killing of 26-year-old Army veteran and engineer Matt Flores.

I applaud Congressman Michael Honda’s recent convening of the STEM Advisory Council, which I attended last Friday at Applied Materials with 60-plus engineers, educators, policy makers and non-profit leaders. We must act now, as more and more firms in the U.S., like Applied Materials, require science, technology, engineering or math degrees to satisfy their employment mandates.