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The Mercury News - Politics

EPA seeks more public comments as it struggles to devise water rule that limits scope on wetlands

10 hours ago

Watchdog report: Ex-Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer oversaw hostile work environment, misused funds

10 hours ago

Midterm mail ballots start to go to voters as litigation over Trump's order creates uncertainty

12 hours ago

Vance says Iran fight isn't a 'war' as Trump tries to navigate unpopular conflict as election nears

12 hours ago

Opinion: California must protect West Oakland from Trump's toxic coal terminal

21 days ago

Letters: Aisha Wahab's swearing-in is a reason to celebrate

2 hours ago

GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton unveils plan to get phones out of kids' hands, in and out of California classrooms

3 days ago

US military has no plans to send troops to the polls in November, top general says

4 days ago

California congressman removes Donald Trump's endorsement on campaign website

4 days ago

A new California law will ban watering decorative grass, even in non-drought years, starting Jan. 1

3 hours ago

Judge refuses to block Pentagon from firing Stars and Stripes staffers over CBS interview

3 hours ago

Federal judge extends block on Trump executive order seeking to limit mail voting in the midterms

3 hours ago

Trump and Kennedy's health industry deals haven't been enforced and are at risk of vanishing

4 hours ago

Trump calls Iran conflict 'small potatoes' and says he agrees with Vance that it's not a 'war'

5 hours ago

Widow of airman killed in Mideast is upset she was told Iran wasn't a war while sorting out benefits

5 hours ago

Cash buried in California politician's backyard helped expose huge marijuana corruption scheme

8 hours ago

40 years covering California's economic thrill ride

10 hours ago

California's fight against Trump's unhinged war on voting by mail

14 hours ago

San Jose just greenlit an affordable housing project for a long-empty lot—but with a strict safeguard against developer delays

5 hours ago

Martinez officials reiterate commitment to marina improvements

1 day ago

Antioch expands access to opioid treatment and recovery services

13 hours ago

Why does it take so long to build new homes? The problem isn't just zoning.

1 day ago

Schaaf: Vote 'yes' on Regional Transit Measure. We can't afford to let Bay Area transit collapse.

14 hours ago

Joffe: Vote 'no' on Regional Transit Measure. It will burden Bay Area's poorest and isn't needed to 'save transit.'

14 hours ago

Why East San Jose hospital is boosting ER beds

1 day ago

Sausalito city manager resigns, ending post-arrest limbo

1 day ago

How California plans to be voters' 'first line of defense'

1 day ago

California lawmakers pass bill allowing people to identify their Jewish ancestry on state forms

2 days ago

California Legislature withdraws a controversial wildfire liability bill. What now?

2 days ago

Big Tech's data center boom is igniting a political revolt in the Bay Area

2 days ago

Opinion: California's top earners are thriving. Prop. 3 asks them to keep paying their share.

7 days ago

Oda: Birthright citizenship is not a wartime exception

7 days ago

Wahab sworn in as first Afghan American to serve in Congress

2 days ago