The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors have dropped a fund they’ve used for things like videotaping local ballet, mountainside meditation sessions and funding two struggling newspapers on the coast ...

The Palo Alto Unified School District is in the middle of at least 11 different lawsuits, including cases that allege unchecked bullying, racist attacks, injured students, inadequate special education ...

The San Mateo County Community College District faculty union voted yesterday (March 13) to strike if the district does not ...

Paul Ehrlich, Stanford Professor of Population Studies, Emeritus. Stanford photo. Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, who died Sunday in Palo Alto at age 93, was a crusader whose dire predictions about ...

On a 3-2 vote, the Palo Alto school board tonight (March 17) declined to tell high schools to offer Multivariable Calculus — an advanced math class that was rejected by principals and teachers but ...

The Palo Alto school board voted last night to part ways with its acting superintendent, less than a month after separating from its superintendent of eight years. The district will pay one year’s ...

San Mateo County Sheriff Ken Binder has promoted Capt. Mike Tabak to be San Carlos’s police chief, city officials said today. Tabak, who started yesterday, is filling the vacancy left by Mark Myers, ...

A man sentenced to two years and six months in prison for attempting to kidnap a student at Sequoia High School in Redwood City will not go to San Quentin because he has already been in jail for that ...

The Palo Alto City Council unanimously approved plans tonight (March 16) for the city’s first housing development east of Highway 101, over some concerns over how children at the 145 townhouses will ...