How can holiday shoppers be sure that the new connected device they’re eyeing was designed with protections against digital attacks?

Google forked over $1 billion for a business park in Mountain View, making it by far the biggest real estate buy in the Bay Area this year.

San Jose reached a milestone in its land negotiations with Google, releasing a purchase agreement that comes up for a vote next month.

Bay Area voters last week ushered in more than a dozen local weed ordinances, all but one concerning taxes.

The Catholic diocese in San Jose has released the name of 15 former priests credibly accused of sexually abusing children.

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.