A newly elected Sequoia Union High School District Trustee had to quit her job as a principal of a charter school in the ...

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe announced this morning he is throwing out the timecard fraud case against deputy’s union president Carlos Tapia, who was arrested on the orders of ...

The family of a man who died by suicide at a San Mateo County jail claims sheriff’s office employees were indifferent to “obvious red flags” that the man was having mental health issues.

Valley Water is one of five agencies in the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority, along with the cities of Menlo Park, Palo Alto and East Palo Alto and the San Mateo County Flood and Sea ...

Cyclists and San Carlos residents are lobbying city council to make changes after a Palo Alto bicyclist was killed on a highway overpass that is slated for a pedestrian bridge. Andrea Vallebueno, 31, ...

Post Editor Dave Price won the top prize for best column in the news/political category. Price also won the first- and second-place prizes for headlines. The top one was “Supervisors get icy over ICE” ...

Members of Palo Alto City Council are worried about the $40 million price tag for widening the sidewalks on University Avenue but voted to advance the redesign after City Manager Ed Shikada told them ...

San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus refused yesterday (Dec. 10) to give her side of the abuse-of-power scandal gripping her office, and the county Board of Supervisors went forward with plans ...

A Bay Area agency today (Dec. 9) will consider signing off on a half-cent sales tax measure to fund public transportation agencies that have seen their ridership numbers fall off a cliff.

It’s decision time for San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus. The main question is whether she will resign voluntarily. So far she’s rejected calls to resign that have come from the county Board ...

Tree Lane last year. Photo provided by organizers of the event. Christmas Tree Lane, the traditional decoration of the street and homes along the 1700 and 1800 blocks of Fulton Street in Palo Alto, ...

A 26-year-old man arrested in connection with the shooting death last week of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City has connections to California, including a brief stint as teaching ...