Three of VTA’s four unions ratified new contracts for the next four years, leaving the transit agency’s frontline workers ...

Silicon Valley is known for technological innovation, but its jails are running on paper — and it’s fueling a public safety ...

Living in California, the possibility of catastrophic fire is never too far from many residents' minds. But what if there was a way to build homes so that the risk of fire was much lower while also ...

Humans and ghosts inhabit the pages of Palo Alto-based author J.E. Weiner's “The Wretched and Undone.” The novel tells the story of a Polish immigrant family in a Texan town known as the "cowboy ...