Campaigning is inherently self-promotional, but the state Senate hopeful under fire for the way he's using county merch to boost his political profile.

As San Jose’s elected leaders quibble about equity in the city’s budget, another test of their fidelity to the principle is on the horizon.

Decades after founding the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee, Ken Yeager will take the helm as its PAC’s first executive director.

With a new governor at the helm, the career lawmaker is ready to take another crack at bills vetoed time and again by past administrations.

The lifelong public servant and inveterate regulator says she’ll heed her own advice about transparency in her campaign for elected office.

On the eve of his swearing-in to a second two-year term as Milpitas mayor, Rich Tran is now expanding the scope of his political ambition.

The race for county supervisor pits a trustee of the South Bay’s largest school district against a councilman of Silicon Valley’s largest city.

The deadline to jump in the San Jose mayor’s race closed Friday with no realistic challengers for Sam Liccardo.

After public backlash quashed plans earlier this year to build tiny cabins for the homeless in San Jose, city officials are giving it another shot.

Vice Mayor Magdalena Carrasco takes aim at her predecessors while rocking a Wonder Woman corset at the annual sketch show.

Nora Campos’ unorthodox political career may lead her to challenge Councilwoman Magdalena Carrasco, who is clearly not a fan.

San Jose Inside published its annual Year in Review list last week. Now we give you our prognostications of what’s to come in 2017.

Maybe we can start this over again? Or return it like a holiday present we didn’t need? Yes, 2016 was the gift that kept on giving.

Faced with a science-averse president-elect, local communities have no choice but to fend for themselves in the fight against climate change.

A coalition of California legislators, led by Campbell Assemblyman Evan Low, introduced a resolution that aims to abolish the Electoral College.

Councilman-elect Sergio Jimenez, who represents the Edenvale-Santa Teresa neighborhoods, starts his new job a month early and without pay.