Palo Alto News

She had a 10-year-old daughter. Coworkers said Rodriguez worked as a "float" at the foundation's Palo Alto Center, circulating between various departments for the past year.

The Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life, one of the largest construction projects to unfold on the Peninsula in recent years, is nearly finished, officials announced Wednesday.

Palo Alto's historic College Terrace Library will close this weekend for a yearlong renovation, its first major overhaul since its construction in 1937.

Relatives of a cab driver who was shot and killed in East Palo Alto last week are struggling to raise money for the 31-year-old man's funeral and can't understand why anyone would want to harm a devoted family man seemingly liked by everyone.

John Costa came to Palo Alto in 1978 as a 21-year-old with little more than a high school diploma and a desire to try his hand at police work.

Menlo Park police responding to a report of an auto burglary in progress on Thursday, July 2, in the 200 block of Willow Road arrived on the scene shortly after 7:15 p.m., set up a perimeter and observed a man attempting to hide in the bushes, police said.

Palo Alto home values up in '08, says assessor. Uhh, really? It's hard to know how much any house is worth in this market, but Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone seems to think that property values in a handful of cities and towns -- including Palo Alto, Mountain View and Los Altos -- actually increased last year , while home values in a few ...

July 5, 2009, 07:54 PM - Computerworld - Psystar, the Mac clone maker embroiled in a legal dispute with Apple, asked a federal judge last week to dismiss its bankruptcy case, saying that it had been unable to reach a payment agreement with its law firm.

A man fatally shot in East Palo Alto late Thursday night has been identified as city resident Derrick Earl Powell Jr., according to the San Mateo County coroner's office.

Miriam Lee, a prominent acupuncturist who pushed for licensing the practice in California and treated patients for two decades in Palo Alto, died last week.

Despite losing his primary sponsor earlier this month, Palo Alto resident Martin Krieg, 55, is leaving May 3 on the seventh Mayors Ride.

Delores Cunningham heard the shots Thursday night, but like other residents of Hunter Street in East Palo Alto, she thought it was someone setting off fireworks.

As planning accelerates for a high-speed rail line between San Francisco and the Los Angeles area, some residents fear it could take out trees, homes and businesses and split their communities with elevated trains flashing between San Francisco and San Jose.

California's high-speed rail plan is raising objections among some in the San Francisco Bay area who say the line could take out trees, homes and businesses and split their communities.

Share + Jul 3, 2009 8:55 am US/Pacific EAST PALO ALTO East Palo Alto police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old man in the city late Thursday night.

Palo Alto police are increasing patrols in response to a series of arson fires over the past six months.

Emergency workers had to use the Jaws of Life Wednesday night to extract a 30-year-old man from his vehicle when in crashed off U.S. Highway 101 in Palo Alto, according to the fire department.

There's a new garbage man in town - sort of. Starting today, Palo Alto's trash will be picked up by San Jose-based GreenWaste Recovery, which takes over for Palo Alto Sanitation Co.

East Palo Alto will commemorate its 26th birthday and the country's Independence Day with a parade and community celebration on July 4. The festivities will begin 9 a.m. at Cesar Chavez Elementary School with parade-goers leaving the school around 10 a.m. for a march to Martin Luther King Park, Mayor Ruben Abrica said.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking a page from high school science books in an effort to shrink California's $24 billion budget gap.