A former Atherton resident has been extradited from Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia after allegedly setting up a fraudulent “groen card” visa scheme for wealthy foreign investors, prosecutors said.

City Council tomorrow (March 11) will hear an appeal of the planning commission’s approval for the housing project for employees of the Ravenswood City School District at 320 Sheridan Drive. The ...

San Mateo County voters decided on Tuesday to amend the county charter to give the Board of Supervisors the authority to fire ...

At 8:10 p.m., the county elections department reported that Measure A was leading with 85.6% of the vote, or 75,141 to 12,628 ...

If the voters approve Measure A, it will take about a month to begin the process to remove her. The county elections ...

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 7 A.M. — A student at Palo Alto High School was killed by a Caltrain yesterday at the Churchill Avenue crossing, Principal Brent Kline said in a mass email to parents and others.

Caltrain recorded at least 18 deaths on the tracks last year, the most since 2015. Caltrain used to give a timeline of the strikes, the number of people who were on board and whether anyone else was ...

The losing slate, called North Star Democrats, included Palo Alto Councilwoman Julie Lythcott-Haims, former Portola Valley ...

Caltrans is proposing to eliminate a lane on El Camino Real through the North Fair Oaks neighborhood to make the street safer ...

The proposal has been met with resistance from downtown merchants, property owners and residents, with over 100 people speaking on both sides at a Jan. 14 meeting where the council voted to proceed ...

Lithium-ion batteries overheating have caused other fires, such as a fire at the Tesla dealership in Palo Alto on Aug. 7, 2022, when a battery overheated and caused several others to catch on fire, ...