For her debut novel 'The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty,' Kirsten Mickelwait took inspiration from a little-known real-life duo who mingled with 1920s luminaries like F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

Palo Alto moved one step closer to approving over $6 million in budget reductions Tuesday after the Finance Committee signed off on the proposal to cut about a dozen vacant positions and make other ...

Silicon Valley’s transportation agency wants to increase revenues from its highway express lanes, but advocates say they could save more money by strengthening public transit.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As Republicans lambasted California lawmakers for rushing through their effort to gerrymander the state’s ...

The Palo Alto Unified School District moved forward with its plan to adopt an advanced diploma program, which would recognize students who excel academically, at a school board meeting Tuesday evening ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to work as an intern on CalMatters’ audience engagement team. As my time ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A perfect storm of economic, fiscal and political trends is battering California’s already deficit-ridden state budget ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As the Inland Empire braces for an extreme heat warning this week, a community group is helping residents in the ...

Menlo Park police let out-of-state agencies access its automated license plate reader data, a breach of California law that ...

The developer behind a 382-unit project near the California Avenue Caltrain stop is asking Palo Alto for an environmental ...

Hoping to secure City Hall approval after more than three years of delays and refinements, a developer who is pursuing a ...

I admit, that when I hear about spending billions and trillions of dollars, I intellectually grasp the amounts, but don’t quite realize how much money is involved. So, l wrote down the sums on paper, ...