Palo Alto City Council candidates agree that City Hall should be opened up to the public, questioning City Manager Ed Shikada ...

A campaign promoting a $350 million bond measure for the Los Altos School District has raised $48,000, with most of the money ...

San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said Sunday she is filing a bullying complaint against County Manager Mike Callagy ...

The unions representing sheriff’s deputies and sergeants said in a statement today (Sept. 24) that they’re concerned about Sheriff Christina Corpus’ firing of assistant sheriff Dan Monaghan.

A bicyclist has died in Palo Alto after riding into a lane that was closed for construction, police said today (Sept. 19).

The civil grand jury is an unusual path to removing a sheriff, but it happened in Santa Clara County in 2022. Longtime sheriff Laurie Smith was accused of accepting campaign contributions in exchange ...

Los Altos Police released this sketch of an assault suspect. Los Altos police have released a sketch of a man who allegedly hit an 89-year-old man in the head and left him unconscious on the ground, ...

A reader brought to my attention an email newsletter from San Mateo County Supervisor Noelia Corzo, sent out on a county government account, in which she appears to be campaigning against Prop. 36, ...

Blanca Stella Arana, a Salvadorian immigrant, devoted Catholic and an accounting secretary who raised four children in Palo Alto, died on Aug. 27 at a nursing home in Seatac, Wash., after an ...