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The Mercury News - Politics

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

21 days ago

Opinion: Of course Flock cameras are being attacked. Congress has failed to regulate them.

8 minutes ago

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

13 hours ago

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

13 hours ago

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

14 hours ago

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

15 hours ago

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

15 hours ago

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

15 hours ago

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

19 hours ago

40 years covering California's economic thrill ride

21 hours ago

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

1 day ago

State watchdog fines Matt Mahan $27,500 after $2.3 million in donation disclosures were delayed

12 hours ago

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

15 hours ago

Martinez officials reiterate commitment to marina improvements

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day 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

3 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

8 days ago

Wahab sworn in as first Afghan American to serve in Congress

2 days ago