Three days before Election Day, state housing officials weighed in on a ballot measure that would require the city to go to voters with any plans to redevelop downtown parking lots into public housing ...

A campaign to bail out Bay Area transit agencies has raised $7.3 million – boosted by labor unions, tech companies and Caltrain’s contractors. Stanford has donated $10,000 to support the Regional ...

Palo Alto City Council candidate Yudy Deng said she will stand by her pledge to stop taking donations after collecting ...

The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner has identified two drivers who died in a five-car crash on Interstate 280 in Los ...

As election day approaches, large donations are pouring into campaigns for and against Menlo Park’s Measure P, an initiative to halt the city’s plans to build public housing on downtown parking lots.

The U.S. Department of Education announced an investigation today (Oct. 26) into the Palo Alto Unified School District over a ...

A woman has been cited for allegedly stealing a sign supporting a measure to protect downtown parking lots in Los Altos, police said yesterday. Laurel McAndrews Frogley, 41, stole a “Yes on Measure D” ...

If you want to reform the Palo Alto Unified School District, don’t split your ticket between a status quo candidate and a reformer. This fall, voters will pick two candidates for two openings on the ...

Most Californians won’t be able to vote for their local school board again this year because of a lack of candidates. Even a new law allowing school boards to raise trustee pay has not led to more ...

Leaders of the San Mateo County Community College District are asking voters to approve a S1 billion bond measure, despite few safeguards being added since a past chancellor took bribes from ...

Measure J would permanently raise the sales tax by a half cent so the city could pay the school district $65.5 million for a piece of the Cubberley Community Center. Last week, the Yes-on-J side ...

A Caltrain hit a car at the Alma Street crossing in Palo Alto on Wednesday – the second strike at the location in the past two weeks. Nobody was in the car at the time of yesterday’s crash around 2 p.