The Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County—near-six-decade-old public interest law firm—is apparently verging on collapse.

Santa Clara County will host a series of events through the rest of the month to raise awareness about human trafficking.

The need is too urgent and the payoff seems too great not to try it. After all, if it can’t be done in Silicon Valley, where can it?

While state agencies have undergone a reckoning over sexual harassment, local governments have largely escaped scrutiny—until now.

A poll testing negative messaging gives us a hint at the kinds of hits voters will see in campaign mailers later this election season.

Money should never stand in the way of doing what’s right when it comes to serving the needs or our students.

A 53-year-old Santa Clara County inmate was pronounced dead at 7:33pm on this past Sunday at the Main Jail in San Jose.

Discussion after the July 16 documentary screening is sure to shake the pillars of every parking garage in downtown San Jose.

Santa Clara County saw a steep increase in domestic violence-related deaths in 2017, which saw six more fatalities than in 2016.

Police have arrested two accused sexual assailants who attacked several victims in San Jose and Milpitas in the span of a few days this past week.

More Santa Clara County voters cast ballots in the June election than in 2014 and slightly more than in the Tea Party-dominated 2010 primary.

A spike in child drownings and drowning scares has prompted Santa Clara County health officials to issue a public warning.

Families who lost loved ones to drugged driving worry that the state’s inability to consistently enforce DUI laws will put other lives at risk.

The value of Santa Clara County’s taxable property hit an all-time high of $483.2 billion, according to the latest assessment.

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 man believed to have killed Arlis Perry in 1974 reportedly shot himself to death this morning as police closed in on his apartment.