Portola Valley News

Police have identified the 36-year-old man killed in an auto accident Thursday as David Jerome Guerrero.

For 17 years, Xia Zhao's knack for planning ahead helped her steer through obstacle after obstacle.

Editor - California's new law mandates that while operating their cars, drivers can no longer use hand- held phones.

The perfect storm occurred in front of our house at 11:26 p.m. June 12, when a car driven by Keith Benford Knudsen, 19, of Portola Valley crashed and killed his passenger, Robert Lewis Wetzel, 19, of Redwood ...

The digging at Portola Valley Town Center continues apace in the initial phase of the $1.4 million project to open up part of Sausal Creek to the air by the end of the year.

The new Roberts market in Portola Valley opened its doors Wednesday, June 25, near the corner of Alpine and Portola roads.

At 28, the vines are now farmed without irrigation or any spraying, thanks in part to the vineyard site around 700 feet, below the fog line.

Members of the San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force and the California Highway Patrol paid a visit to the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve on the borders of Woodside and Portola Valley today and destroyed ...

Keith Benford Knudsen, 19, of Portola Valley, accused of manslaughter in the death of fellow Woodside High graduate Robert Lewis Wetzel, was driving in excess of 80 mph and had a blood-alcohol level of more ...

Two familiar faces are expected to take on new roles this week in the Palo Alto Unified School District.

Mary Bussmann, a nearly decade-long veteran of Palo Alto schools, will be principal of Walter Hays Elementary School starting July 1, according to a press release from Assistant Superintendent Scott Bowers.

It's a Wednesday night and 70-year-old Glenn Havens has two beautiful ladies in heels and ball gowns swaying in his arms to the music of the Waldo Carter Orchestra .

A 19-year-old Portola Valley resident has been charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated after he crashed a car into a tree last week, killing a teenage passenger, officials said today.

Woodside , posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Jun 5, 2008 at 9:15 pm It's so easy to elicit sighs of exasperation from officials in towns such as Woodside and Portola Valley and the law enforcement ...

Hours before 19-year-old Robert Wetzel died in a car crash Thursday night, he got a call on his cell phone from his sister Lucy.

An 18-year-old Redwood City man died in Portola Valley on Thursday night in a traffic accident, the San Mateo County coroner said today.

A bill that would protect high school and college teachers from retaliation by administrators as a result of student speech has passed the Assembly Judiciary Committee on a 10-0 vote.

When a Menlo Park man committed suicide in the parking lot of Palo Alto's Baylands Nature Preserve May 23, the bystander who called 911 on a cell phone waited 20 minutes on hold with the California Highway ...

Click on pictures for larger images and captions. Visitors are invited to explore unique barns, watch riding exhibitions, have lunch and browse through equine art and gift items when the Los Altos Hounds holds ...

It's so easy to elicit sighs of exasperation from officials in towns such as Woodside and Portola Valley and the law enforcement officers who patrol there.