Normally, a district would ask for “requests for proposals” or RFPs from search firms. But to speed things up, the district (actually Bahadursingh and board President Shounak Dharap) will ask a couple ...

Homeowners are pushing back on a plea by parents and students to close a railroad crossing by Palo Alto High School as a way to prevent more suicides. Homeowners are worried about ambulances taking ...

The new water rate hike would follow a 10% increase for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30. In each of the previous two years, the city raised water rates by 5%. Other utility rate hikes for ...

If you feel like your social media feed is designed to make you angry, you’re not imagining it. Outrage drives clicks, shares, and time-on-site — and it spikes before elections, when candidates and ...

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe announced today (March 9) that he has decided not to retry the 18 felonies that a jury deadlocked on in the case against former San Mateo County ...

A Palo Alto man who was a coach at a now-closed North Fair Oaks school has been arrested for allegedly having sexual relationships with two students, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office ...

Half of the deaths on the Caltrain tracks last year were in Palo Alto, according to coroner data. The people who died ranged ...

The Hispanic market at 1731 E Bayshore Road was closed by the San Mateo County Health Department on Tuesday, according to the ...

“If it was up to me, everybody in Palo Alto would be talking about prevention everywhere — schools, community centers, doctor’s offices — everywhere,” said Dr. Scott Poland, director of the Suicide ...

The Atherton town government and Sequoia Union High School District have agreed to pay $560,000 to settle with a Menlo-Atherton High School student after a video of him being taken to the ground by ...

Valley Water CEO Rick Callender sexually harassed two female employees by sending inappropriate photos, pressuring them to spend time with him outside of work, including watering his house plants, and ...

Palo Alto City Council wants to pay Uber and Lyft to give rides to low-income residents as a way to replace the city’s own ride share service, called Link. “We want to focus on our most vulnerable ...