In summary Cal State has a goal to graduate 40% of its freshmen within four years. It now graduates 36% — it’s highest rate ever. On other goals, the system is further behind. California State ...

Former Mountain View Whisman Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph's spending on a work credit card and reimbursement requests have raised concerns.

Fifty years ago this month I moved to Sacramento and a few months later, just after Jerry Brown became governor, began covering politics for the long-defunct Sacramento Union newspaper. I have lived ...

California’s Central Valley will be left behind no more, its leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom said today as the region became the first in the state to submit its 20-year economic development plan, which ...

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Following a red wave that swept much of the country, a second Donald Trump presidency will usher significant changes in the nation and Silicon Valley. More than 28% of Santa Clara County voters this ...

After some trial and error, Santa Clara County just made it easier to request a non-police response for someone in mental health crisis.

In summary A Garrison Project and CalMatters analysis of the Racial Justice Act found about a dozen successful cases in which judges took action on racial bias in the legal process. When police pulled ...

History will — or at least should — see a $165 billion error in revenue estimates as one of California’s most boneheaded political acts. It happened in 2022, as the state was emerging from the effects ...

This weekend, catch a residency with jazz luminaries Steven Bernstein, Wayne Horvitz and James Singleton in Palo Alto, plus concerts with Nigerian musician Soji Odukogbe, performer and educator Chrysi ...

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Mountain View just approved its first builder’s remedy project, a seven-story condominium development that will create more ...