East Palo Alto News

Geoff Aus, longtime Menlo Park Fire Protection District fire marshal, is changing employers, but not job titles.

A state proposal to turn the homeless into a "protected class" allowed to urinate in public, sleep in vehicles and have access to attorneys for even minor infractions would be a financial burden on San Mateo County and limit the ability to enforce its own laws, according to concerned officials.

With his family, he immigrated to the United States as a toddler. His mother left her career as a doctor and his father became a janitor at Stanford University to support a dream of educational opportunity for their children.

A teenager who was shot and killed in East Palo Alto on Sunday night has been identified by the San Mateo County Coroner's Office as 15-year-old Jose Quinonez.

The APOA claims the commonly held notion that Atherton officers have less dangerous jobs than other cops in the bay area is a myth.

A committee that will review the boundaries of San Mateo County's supervisorial districts and possibly recommend changes will hold its first meeting June 6 in San Mateo.

Luis Quinones, a 16-year-old boy's father, speaks out to NBC Bay Area about his son, Jose Luis Quinones, who was shot and killed late Sunday night in East Palo Alto.

Police in East Palo Alto are investigating a shooting that killed one teen and injured two others Sunday night.

Police said the 17-year-old boy was talking with friends and standing in a driveway on the 2500 block of Farrington Avenue at 9:28 p.m. when a car approached and the people inside started shooting.

The early afternoon of May 5 started out as a special grandmother-and-granddaughter day for 6-year-old "Ashley" and her grandmother, "Susana." The elder woman and her grandchild had planned an outing to Menlo Park for Chinese food and playing at Burgess Park.

The first in a series of such actions nationwide, advocates for immigrant rights in Mountain View made their point this month by going without food and speaking to church congregations up and down the Peninsula.

To an already impressive list of honors, Gabriel Garcia can now add one more: He is the 2013 recipient of the Dr.

A young man walking to his car was shot Friday afternoon in East Palo Alto, according to police.

Marlene Castro knew the tall blond woman only as Laurene, her mentor. They met every few weeks in a rough Silicon Valley neighborhood the year that Castro was applying to college, and they emailed often, bonding over conversations about Castro's difficult childhood.

On Saturday, May 18, the second international " Fascination of Plants Day " will take place under the umbrella of the European Plant Science Organization .

From the east to the west, public agencies in Menlo Park today participated in the Countywide Disaster Exercise known as the Golden Guardian Exercise 2013 in mock simulations of emergency response activities following a catastrophic earthquake, making the city a ground zero of preparedness training.

It has been 25 years since voters approved funding to replace the outdated interchange where Willow Road meets U.S. 101 in Menlo Park, but on May 7, Menlo Park City Council members tried to finally nudge the project closer to reality by giving a nod to one of the design options suggested by the multi-agency group currently working on the ... (more)

Teens from an East Palo Alto youth action group wait to start the May 1 rally in Mountain View.

Had public comment been darts, Sequoia Union High School District Superintendent James Lianides would have had puncture wounds aplenty after more than two hours on the stage of the Performing Arts Center at Menlo-Atherton High School on Monday .

Facing projections of a 22 percent rise in overall enrollment in local public high schools over the next eight years, officials from the Sequoia Union High School District want to hear from district parents in community meetings this month about where to put the students, and whether and how to redraw boundary maps that connect schools to ... (more)