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Drivers of electric vehicles have another place to charge up in Palo Alto. Palo Alto Mayor Yiaway Yeh Tuesday joined city staff and representatives from 350Green in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Stanford Shopping Center , where another charging station came online.

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- -- Avidbank Corporate Finance, a Division of Avidbank, has provided AUXILIO, Inc.

An effort to keep the Palo Alto Animal Services division from being outsourced picked up another key endorsement Tuesday night.

The Paly Art Show will take place on May 20 in the Lucie Stern Community Center.

Teri Hatcher's career as an actress has been a huge success. While her run as Susan Mayer on "Desperate Housewives" has come to an end as the show heads off into the sunset, we can be pretty sure that Hatcher will find a new chapter to her career just around the corner.

SurfCanister is a patent pending safe browsing technology, which protects users' computer, as well as valuable and confidential data against latest Trojans and Viruses.

In a new study, published in the May 15 issue of the journal, Neurology , researchers found about 3.6 percent of U.S. adults - about 8.4 million people - sleepwalk each year.

According to the San Jose Mercury News , the city council approved the Lytton Gateway Building project with a 7-2 vote early Tuesday.

Although I've ridden on Bike to Work Day for the past five years, Thursday was my first time behind the table, passing out coffee cake, bagels, and bananas to all of my fellow cyclists.

The fine for illegally using a cellphone while driving in California would increase from $20 to $30 under a bill approved by the state Senate, although the actual cost would climb to at least $199 for first offenders once court fees are collected.

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A sweeping proposal to run dedicated bus lanes along El Camino Real heads to City Council next week.

A 3-year-old boy struck by a car was airlifted out of the A mador Valley High School parking lot on Friday night.

In a Town Hall meeting attended by teachers, school administrators and concerned parents from around the county, State Sen.

The voters have spoken! Palo Alto residents voted strongly in favor of Avenue Florist as the best flower shop in town.

How important is it to you to see alternative transportation grow in Palo Alto? Under a proposal by VTA to install dedicated rapid transit bus lanes on El Camino Real, it may be much faster to travel between Downtown Palo Alto and San Jose, but it could come at the cost of car capacity.

Having kids is generally seen as a good thing. Grandparents crave it; parents find it meaningful; our genes' evolutionary mandate requires it.

Dr. John Dearborn operates a revision knee replacement surgery at Washington Hospital Healthcare System in Fremont on April 25, 2012.

I am looking for a clean and friendly person to share the master bedroom in a two bedroom two bath spacious apartment for the summer.