Local Politics
Editorial: Ballot plan shows California school construction inequities
Lucky Sunnyvale School District voters should OK Measure C but recognize this teachable moment.
Why are oil and gas companies pumping money into a down-ballot East Bay race for State Senate?
Outsized PAC spending in District 5 race raises the stakes for competing Democratic candidates.
City of Santa Cruz awards Joby with $500,000 loan for local job creation
The Santa Cruz City Council approved a motion at its meeting Tuesday to provide local...
Santa Clara County housed a record number of homeless people last year. But even more fell into homelessness
First-time homelessness spiked across the South Bay.
Opposition mounts to AT&T’s plan to stop landline service in most of Bay Area
Bay Area members of Congress have also launched opposition to AT&T's plan.
Editorial: East Bay voters should OK only one of four school bond plans
There's no free lunch. Measures in Antioch, Hayward, Moraga, San Leandro require more property taxes...
Violent rally shuts down Cal event featuring Israeli speaker
Protesters attacked at least two attendees and shouted anti-Semitic slurs, according to one witness.
Officials say Alameda County needs recall reform. So why aren’t they making a case for it on the ballot?
“There are great arguments to be made,” said Joshua Spivak, a senior research fellow at...
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Bay Area assemblymember’s bill would compel rights for families after police violence
A proposed law from Assemblymember Ash Kalra cites families who recall being kept in the...
Santa Cruz police arrests ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural vandal
Santa Cruz Police have identified 49-year-old Santa Cruz County resident Taj Blum as the scooter-riding,...