Palo Alto News

Who's to blame for Palo Alto's three block bald spot? Lining a stretch of Palo Alto's California Ave.

Friends and family are mourning the death of a former East Palo Alto high school student who died last week in Colorado, where he was a senior in college.

The Palo Alto Unified School District is one step closer to asking voters for a $96 parcel tax increase next April, as board members discussed final language for the proposal at a meeting Tuesday.

A gallery of the mistresses of Tiger Woods and the fallout after his Thanksgiving Day car accident.

Things apparently got a little too wild at Antonio's Nut House in Palo Alto early Saturday, as police arrested a patron on suspicion of threatening the bartenders with a gun.

After threats, recriminations, a petition drive and a slew of long public meetings, a family trust on Monday won the right to rebuild a popular neighborhood grocery on El Camino Real in Palo Alto, along with a new office building and low-income apartments.

Nissan Motors says it will sell its new electric car in the San Francisco Bay area as part of a limited rollout, citing the region's commitment to building electric car infrastructure.

Apple has been ordered to pay over $21.5 million in damages to Opti, according to a press release published on the latter company's website.

Dan Olsen, 39, at right, founder of startup YourVersion, discusses a problem with Chris Haase, 34, while in back Jakub Kiedorowicz, 22, watches at Olsen's Palo Alto, Calif., apartment.

In this photo made Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, Ryan Calo, with the Stanford Center for Internet and... In this photo made Tuesday, Nov.

The iPhone's potential as a musical instrument is on display at the University of Michigan this week with a concert by the Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble.

The former SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory employee accused of destroying half a million dollars' worth of research to counteract "negative karma" is back in custody after giving federal authorities the slip roughly four months ago.

William A. Wilson, the first American to serve as ambassador to the Vatican and a member of President Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" of advisers, has died.

This sleek kitchen by the Danenberg Design firm gets high marks from their Palo Alto, California client: a oeDan is an innovative designer with excellent design ideas and a great eye for style.

A panhandler's legal challenge of Palo Alto's sit-lie ordinance was delayed Monday after his public defender was transferred to San Jose, said Donald Larkin, assistant city attorney.

A long-debated plan to rebuild JJ&F Food Store along with offices and below-market-rate apartments on El Camino Real in Palo Alto is headed for a final vote by the city council.

Private security guards are now keeping a watch for anyone loitering near the Meadow Drive Caltran crossing after the suicide deaths of four Gunn High School students over the past year.

When I saw the photo of this pie from Howie's Artisan Pizza on KQED's Bay Area Bites blog , it immediately reminded me of Emilia's Pizzeria across the San Francisco Bay to the north in Berkeley.

Palo Alto Online News The first administrative office for the Menlo Park Fire Protection District to be separate from the fire station was dedicated Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. The new administrative office building, located at 170 Middlefield Road, is the first to be located away from the fire station since the District formed in 1916, according to ...

Palo Alto's first Trader Joe's, which will have its grand opening Friday, will stock all the signature staples familiar to the upscale chain's fans: bake-and-serve Mandarin orange chicken, Joe-Joe's cookies, and Charles Shaw wine, popularly known as "Two Buck Chuck." Still, customers at the new location in the Town and Country Village shopping ...