SANTA CLARA COUNTY — More than two years after a Blue Ribbon Commission recommended oversight for the Santa Clara County jails following interviews with hundreds of inmates that painted a picture of widespread abuse, there still is no independent entity examining the jails.
PARADISE — For nearly 80 years, Paradise Elementary School occupied a plot on Pearson Road. Students could walk to Paradise Intermediate, the local middle school, and the Golden Nugget Museum, where they went on field trips. But on Nov. 8, the Camp Fire reduced Paradise Elementary to rubble.
When Camp Fire smoke clears, where will 2,500 Paradise students go? Read More »
PALO ALTO — After nine years of patrolling the tracks at Palo Alto’s Caltrain railroad crossings, the last of the human guards were replaced with cameras as part of the city’s Track Watch program – a suicide prevention initiative.
Palo Alto replaces Caltrain track guards with cameras in suicide prevention program Read More »
CHICO — Their Facebook profiles still read “lives in Paradise”, but Tamara and Seth Roberts know that their house had been destroyed in the Camp Fire, which has burned 130,000 acres in Butte County.
Couple loses home in Paradise fire, but find reasons to hope Read More »
PALO ALTO — Voters across the Peninsula took to the polls to cast their votes on a number of local races and propositions Tuesday.
Civic duty, education issues drive Peninsula voters to polls Read More »
PALO ALTO — Palo Alto’s medical cost reduction ballot measure lost in a landslide vote against the initiative during Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Palo Alto voters reject Measure F, which would have regulated healthcare costs Read More »
Peninsula Press coverage for the Nov. 6 midterm election. What does Election 2018 look like in your neighborhood?
Election 2018 in the Peninsula Read More »
PALO ALTO — The Enough is Enough political action committee is focused on six candidates in five states, who have either been accused of sexual misconduct, have voted against measures to aid victims, or have otherwise failed to stand with survivors on the subject of sexual assault.
#MeToo hits the midterms: New PAC targets accused politicians Read More »
PENINSULA — Two years after California legalized recreational marijuana, pot laws on the Peninsula remain a patchwork.
Cracks emerge in Peninsula prohibition on dispensaries Read More »
PENINSULA — Stories about the 2018 midterm elections.
ALAMEDA & SANTA CLARA COUNTIES — About one percent of voters in Alameda and Santa Clara counties will cast their ballots on electronic voting machines that have known security vulnerabilities.
SANTA CLARA — Santa Clara County’s five-term sheriff, Laurie Smith, is facing her toughest re-election battle in two decades amid heightened scrutiny of her record and recent high-profile deaths at the county jails.
