Brandon Pho

Public records suggest the federal government plans to build a detention center in Santa Clara County, just 11 miles south of an ICE field office in Morgan Hill.

Community leaders rallied at the seat of Santa Clara County government Thursday with a flurry of signs and one promise: No federal detention center will be built near Gilroy without a fight.

Money is flowing in two competitive Santa Clara County races less than a month before the June 2 primary election.

Instead, they're up in arms as county leaders — grappling with a crushing budget deficit — have asked to delay cost-of-living wage increases that nurses went on strike for in 2024 and won in writing with a hard-fought contract.

Santa Clara County has seen an encouraging decline in child death rates, while simultaneously being marred by repeat tragedies and scandals as a result of bad homes and youth welfare leaders bungling foster cases.

Don't miss a story. San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's bid for governor appears to be stalling.

Don't miss a story. Outrageous. Catastrophic. A massive leadership failure. These are the words Santa Clara County leaders used this week to describe Gov.

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s bid for governor appears to be stalling. An outside committee set up to support Mahan’s campaign, Deliver for Mahan, has filed Outside groups supporting San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s California governor campaign are shutting down or refunding donations as his polling numbers lag ahead of the primary.

Transit advocates say they've surpassed their signature-gathering goal to put a sales tax on the November ballot, which would raise $1 billion annually for public transit service across five Bay Area counties and could save some stations from closure.

After two years of uncertainty, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds leaders are gearing up to change their own governing structure, ceding more control to the county over the 165-acre public property's future.