Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Jan. 20, but there are local events and volunteer opportunities honoring the civil rights ...

Concerned about the health and environmental impacts of synthetic turf, Palo Alto has halted its plans to resurface the ...

Three days after immensely destructive and deadly wildfires broke out in and around Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a $322.3 billion state budget with a positive revenue forecast “based on an ...

Thousands of residents in Los Angeles County have lost their homes to the multiple fires that sparked as early as Tuesday, Jan. 7. While hundreds of miles away from the blaze, local residents of the ...

The Palo Alto Board of Education will vote on whether or not to create one “foundational” biology course on Jan. 21.

In summary After the LA fires prompted several colleges and universities to close or move to remote operations last week, several are resuming from winter break this week with online instruction and ...

In summary Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020 signed a law allowing California to manufacture its own insulin, an effort to bring down the cost of the drug. The project is years away from delivering medicine ...

Jennielynn Holmes stood in the middle of a make-shift evacuation center when the scope of the crisis hit her.  Surrounded by thousands of people that had just fled the Tubbs Fire that burned through ...

In summary Key moisture measurements are only 2% to 5% of average, leaving dusty soils. And the recent swing from wet to dry is among the most extreme on record. This combination of climatic ...

Commercial trucks pass by a warehouse in the Wilmington area of Los Angeles on Dec. 2, 2024. Photo by Carlin Stiehl for In a striking setback to reduce California’s air pollution but a win for ...

Palo Alto City Council member Julie Lythcott-Haims issued a public apology on Monday after numerous residents accused her of ...

Despite an outcry from downtown property owners and retailers, Palo Alto leaders agreed on Monday to support restaurants' ...