After scientists at Menlo Park’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory spent over two decades developing and constructing a car-sized camera, it has now been installed at the new, nearly complete Vera ...

While some Democratic politicians opted to skip President Donald Trump's address to the Joint Session of Congress, U.S. Rep. San Liccardo attended with a guest: an Army veteran who lost his job at the...

A report detailing Menlo Park’s housing construction progress in 2024 reveals that the city is mostly meeting the production targets.

Portola Valley Town Council members were relieved to hear about the town’s balanced budget after Finance Director Tony McFarlane gave a presentation on mid-year budget updates.

Early voting results show that San Mateo County's Measure A, the ballot measure that would amend the county charter to give the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors the power to remove embattled San ...

For now, Menlo Park will stay the course on the plan to build affordable housing on city-owned parking lots downtown.

The Woodside Town Council voted to approve a resolution to endorse Measure A, a San Mateo County ballot initiative that would allow the Board of Supervisors to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus from off...

An affordable housing development for veterans that has been a few years in the making officially broke ground in Menlo Park on Wednesday, Feb. 26.

The California Fair Political Practices Commission has launched an investigation into Sequoia Union High School District Area B Trustee Mary Beth Thompson.

The city is trying to find ways to expand its electrification program and increase uptake before its grant money expires in 2026.

California Water Service has completed its upgrades to infrastructure in the northeastern area of Portola Valley. Beginning in August 2024, Cal Water has been working on enhancing water supply reliabi...

The Menlo Park City Council passed an ordinance restricting RVs from parking overnight on all public streets in the city.

San Mateo County has named Amy Davidson head of its Center on Homelessness, which coordinates homeless services throughout the county.

After thousands of homes were destroyed by the Los Angeles fires in January, local jurisdictions are on high alert for wildfire. State Sen. Josh Becker hosted a virtual wildfire town hall with Woodsid...

At its last meeting, the Atherton City Council took the next step toward resubmitting the town’s housing element to the state, adopting a resolution approving changes to the housing element recommende...

More than 20 Portola Valley residents attended a protest in San Jose on Feb. 17 as part of a nationwide movement called Not My President’s Day.

The Tesla dealership in Palo Alto became a scene of protest on Sunday afternoon as more than 400 demonstrators lined two sides of the block to wave signs and chant slogans directed at company CEO Elon...

Meanwhile, if Measure A doesn’t pass, a recall effort against Corpus could move forward. “We’re on standby,” Jim Hartnett, an organizer for a recall committee and former Redwood City mayor.

Community members gathered at the Belle Haven Community Campus in Menlo Park on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 8, to celebrate local business owners and community members, and to listen to music and spoken ...

Sequoia Union High School District Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources is resigning from his position effective June 30. Beal has been with the district since 2022 and says he is resigning due...

As San Mateo County braces for an atmospheric river set to hit the Bay Area, local officials are urging residents to prepare for potential flooding and hazardous conditions. The county and city govern...

Law enforcement emphasizes they do not enforce immigration laws and will not question immigration status

The Atherton City Council unanimously passed an urgency ordinance to once more regulate backyard chickens after inadvertently removing the rules in 2023.

Fern, one of three mountain lion cubs rescued from Portola Valley in late January, has tested positive for giardia. She is currently being treated, according to the Oakland Zoo.

Former Capt. Brian Philip sues San Mateo County, alleging retaliation, illegal orders, and wrongful termination by Sheriff Corpus and her staff.

A case of H5N1 — known as bird flu — was detected in a domestic stray cat in Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County reported on Feb. 6. This is the first case of bird flu reported outside of chickens in the ...

Hundreds of students across the Sequoia Union High School District walked out of their classrooms Thursday in protest of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, calling attention to the impac...

Menlo Park’s Civic Center area and public parks could return to the table as possible sites for residential development in the wake of the recent storm of opposition to potentially building houses on ...

The Las Lomitas Elementary School District has opened an anonymous survey asking for the community’s input on the selection of its next superintendent. Former Superintendent Beth Polito is currently o...

A neighbor of the Flood School teacher housing development has submitted an appeal, asking the Menlo Park City Council to revisit the Planning Commission’s entitlement of the project.

On Jan. 24, the city of Menlo Park released a request for proposals from environmental consultants to prepare a California Environmental Quality Act review of the controversial development proposal fo...

The League of Women Voters of North and Central San Mateo County will host a nonpartisan informational session on pros and cons of the upcoming March 4 special election on Thursday, Feb. 6, from 6-7 p...

Attorneys for the county and board stated that Corpus filed her complaint too late, as the election is already underway.

Atherton moves closer to certified housing element as state suggests just a few minor tweaks to its housing plan.

Volunteers gathered to plant the final trees needed to qualify the school as California’s first accredited arboretum on a K-12 public school campus.

While Google’s humble garage beginning is Menlo Park’s most famous startup story, fewer people know that the city is also the birthplace of Round Table Pizza. The original outpost of the nationwide pi...

San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President David Canepa is proposing the development of workforce housing at the current site of the San Mateo County Law Library.

Rob Silano, a resident of the Suburban Park neighborhood in Menlo Park, is leading a recall effort against Mayor Drew Combs following the Planning Commission’s final approval of an educator housing de...

A dead mountain lion was found in Portola Valley near Portola Road and Willowbrook Drive earlier this week on Monday, Jan. 13.

Greater Goods Charities is a global nonprofit that relocated 48 pets on an emergency flight to find them new homes and support overwhelmed shelters in the greater Los Angeles area.

One person is dead following a two-car collision around 5:30 p.m. on Skyline Boulevard in Portola Valley on Monday.

Las Lomitas Elementary School District Superintendent Beth Polito is on leave immediately, and has resigned effective August 2025. The drama unfolded at a meeting on Wednesday.

Menlo Park has granted entitlements to a project that plans to turn a long-vacant parcel previously serving young students into new affordable housing catering to local teachers.

It was standing room only in the Menlo Park City Council Chambers on the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 14, as about 250 people turned out to listen to and comment on the council’s discussion of the city’s ...

Pottery enthusiasts on the Peninsula have something new to get fired up about: Spiffy Pottery Studio, located in the Willows neighborhood of Menlo Park, is a community pottery studio and ceramics teac...

The San Mateo County Office of Education has determined an external state audit of the Las Lomitas Elementary School District is warranted.

Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety's SWAT team descended on East Palo Alto in the early morning of Jan. 9 to arrest a murder suspect.

Menlo Park is being threatened with competing lawsuits from groups in favor of and in opposition to the city’s plan to place affordable housing on three city-owned lots downtown.

This November, researchers discovered an aggressive new lineage of the pathogen that causes sudden oak death in Woodside and Burlingame.