Santa Clara County’s state-mandated housing plans have been approved — nearly two years after the deadline.

If things go as planned, the south end of Palo Alto will face a massive transformation and residential growth in the coming ...

For more than a half a century, Palo Alto has had an unwritten and unencumbered way of decision making, kindly referred to as ...

Scrambling to respond to the Trump administration’s late Monday night directive to pause a wide, but as-yet-unspecified, swath of federal spending programs, California’s Democratic elected officials ...

In summary A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep ...

In summary Republican Assemblymember Carl DeMaio, a newcomer to the California Legislature, wants to retake power from Democrats with his unapologetically brash, Trump-inspired conservatism. So why do ...

Does Donald Trump truly believe the nonsense he spouts about California water — the mythical “valve” connecting the state to Canada, or the imagined “half-pipe” that stands ready to soak the Los ...

Remains of a house severely damaged by the Eaton Fire in Altadena on Jan. 20, 2025. Photo by Jules Hotz for The wildfires still burning in Southern California have destroyed thousands of homes. A ...

In summary A bill by Assemblymember John Harabedian aims to speed up housing recovery through a state-led task force to address the Palisades and Eaton Fires. Can California learn from other states ...

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste,” Stanford economist Paul Romer said at a venture capital seminar 21 years ago, referring to the increasing levels of education in other countries that would make ...

A new Magical Bridge playground has opened at Rengstorff Park in Mountain View. It's designed to be accessible for all, including those with disabilities.

Palo Alto police are looking for a group of intruders who broke into an Old Palo Alto home on Saturday evening by smashing ...