The open space fund is a fund meant to maintain the town’s bucolic open space it’s known for and prevent over-development. It has about $8 million in the bank. In order to transfer the money to the ...

Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo was sentenced today (Oct. 21) to 20 years and six months in prison in a case ...

Momentum is building to test a one-way conversion of Coleman Avenue in San Mateo County to make it safer for kids to get to ...

Billy Crudup, left, who portrays Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo in the “Stanford Prison Experiment,” poses with Zimbardo at the premiere of the film at the Eccles Theater during the 2015 ...

Councilwoman Sally Meadows says she wants to make the streets of Los Altos safer, even if that means losing some of the ...

Mayor Jonathan Weinberg says he wants to focus on building a new police station, but most of council’s time this year has been spent on dividing Los Altos into districts to avoid a lawsuit. Weinberg, ...

Los Altos City Council candidate Ibrahim Bashir says he wants to focus on projects that 80% of residents desire, like playgrounds and a swimming pool, rather than listening to a vocal minority.

Los Altos City Council candidate Larry Lang says he might not like all of the laws imposed on cities by the state and federal government, but he’s not interested in fighting them as a city. “We’re not ...

Planning Commissioner Eric Steinle, who is running for council, says he wants to put roofs over downtown Los Altos to give residents more shade. Steinle said roofs could go over downtown parks, ...

Nine candidates are seeking three seats on the East Palo Alto City Council, which will be grappling with issues like running ...

With the possibility of a teachers strike looming, three candidates are seeking open school board positions in the Las Lomitas School District, which serves parts of Atherton and Menlo Park.

A jury on Oct. 16 convicted Anthony Santino Laurentino, 37, of nine felonies, most related to a Jan. 8, 2015, beating and rape of a sex worker he had invited to a cottage in his mother’s Stambaugh ...