3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (346+ words) Palo Alto will pay $8 million to settle a long and bitter dispute with the contractor who constructed the city’s new public safety building, a $120-million project that officially opened near California Avenue in the fall of 2025. City leaders blamed Swinerton…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (940+ words) Seeking to accommodate more students and shifting academic needs, Stanford University is preparing to add nearly 2 million square feet of academic space, 2,500 student beds and about 500 units of housing for faculty and staff over the next two decades, according to…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (609+ words) After more than a decade of designing, debating and dreaming of grade separation at three local rail crossings, Palo Alto’s elected leaders are preparing to narrow their scope and focus their energy on one location: Charleston Road. But as members…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (229+ words) Menlo Park resident Andres Alberto Henriquez Gomez, 52, has been identified as the man who died after he was assaulted in East Palo Alto on Sept. 3, according to East Palo Alto police. The suspect, who was quickly arrested and booked into…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (639+ words) The East Palo Alto City Council offered a boost to a 430-unit housing project for school staff and residents at 2120-2160 Euclid Ave. when it approved last week the affordability levels for units in the new development. Under the plans, which…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (375+ words) After an earlier split over parking policies, the East Palo Alto City Council took a decisive step on Tuesday toward implementing a new residential parking permit program, voting to approve a study that will help the city set the rules…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (204+ words) Project description: The 59-building development will bring 145 for-sale townhomes to an existing office park just south of the Baylands Athletic Center on the east side of Highway 101. The project includes a mix of attached and detached townhomes, with 19 units, or…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (236+ words) Muslim students and parents in Palo Alto, like those around the country, are acutely feeling the sting of intensifying prejudice and discrimination. In that context, this lawsuit comes as a gut punch, bringing the national hysteria to our own local…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (364+ words) Elinda Oxlaj remembers her sister Irma as kind and hardworking. “She was doing good. She was working so hard to try to send everything to her kids and her mom and support them as much as she can,” Elinda Oxlaj…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (398+ words) A Palo Alto condo sold for $270,000 on the site of an adobe that dates to the 1840s and once served as a social hub for the area. Find out what else recently changed hands across the Midpeninsula. Each week, Embarcadero Media…...