Santa Clara County’s state-mandated housing plans have been approved — nearly two years after the deadline.

If things go as planned, the south end of Palo Alto will face a massive transformation and residential growth in the coming ...

For more than a half a century, Palo Alto has had an unwritten and unencumbered way of decision making, kindly referred to as ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a $322 billion state budget for the fiscal year that begins on July 1, emphasizing that it would be balanced without new taxes and have a “modest” $363 million surplus. The ...

Scrambling to respond to the Trump administration’s late Monday night directive to pause a wide, but as-yet-unspecified, swath of federal spending programs, California’s Democratic elected officials ...

Remains of a house severely damaged by the Eaton Fire in Altadena on Jan. 20, 2025. Photo by Jules Hotz for The wildfires still burning in Southern California have destroyed thousands of homes. A ...

In summary A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep ...

In summary Republican Assemblymember Carl DeMaio, a newcomer to the California Legislature, wants to retake power from Democrats with his unapologetically brash, Trump-inspired conservatism. So why do ...

In summary A bill by Assemblymember John Harabedian aims to speed up housing recovery through a state-led task force to address the Palisades and Eaton Fires. Can California learn from other states ...

Does Donald Trump truly believe the nonsense he spouts about California water — the mythical “valve” connecting the state to Canada, or the imagined “half-pipe” that stands ready to soak the Los ...

While Google’s humble garage beginning is Menlo Park’s most famous startup story, fewer people know that the city is also the ...

Palo Alto police are looking for a group of intruders who broke into an Old Palo Alto home on Saturday evening by smashing ...