Menlo Park News

The California High Speed Rail Authority has rejected a settlement offer that Menlo Park, Atherton and environmental groups made in a lawsuit challenging the decision to run bullet trains through the Peninsula instead of the East Bay, an attorney for the cities said.

Federal stimulus money has made it possible for about 50 young people from East Palo Alto and east Menlo Park to work on a health campaign or take a journalism class this summer.

Almanac Arts & Entertainment Local residents will have an opportunity to chat with state Sen.

A project to build a new city gymnasium in Menlo Park's Civic Center complex has cleared another hurdle, and now faces a vote of the City Council before construction can begin.

Menlo Park police responding to a report of an auto burglary in progress on Thursday, July 2, in the 200 block of Willow Road arrived on the scene shortly after 7:15 p.m., set up a perimeter and observed a man attempting to hide in the bushes, police said.

Menlo Park police say they think this arrest will help to close many Willow area auto burglaries and thefts.

Q I got a red-light ticket from one of the cameras on El Camino Real and Ravenswood Avenue in Menlo Park.

The Partners team of the Alpine-West Menlo Little League Majors Division faced as formidable a challenge as it had all season in Mike's Cafe of the Menlo-Atherton Little League.

With a population of a little more than 30,000 and located between the technology of Silicon Valley and the high-rises of San Francisco, the city of Menlo Park is an inviting escape to enjoy the beauty of nature and the quaintness of community.

MENLO PARK, Calif. - Last November, more than 60 percent of voters on the San Francisco Peninsula supported a $9.9 billion bond measure to help pay for a high-speed rail line between San Francisco and the Los Angeles area.

Michael Jackson: Josh dickey and Frank Baker are off, but monitoring and on cell.

Menlo Park will hold its annual Independence Day parade and celebration Saturday, complete with crafts, face painting and carnival games.

Construction has yet to begin on a long-awaited police substation in Menlo Park's Belle Haven neighborhood.

California's effort to require cities to provide their "fair share" of housing gained some muscle last month when Attorney General Jerry Brown sued Pleasanton over the city's housing cap.

Almanac Arts & Entertainment Photo A Johnny Cash tribute band will kick off Menlo Park's summer concert series Wednesday, June 24, in conjunction with the first of two downtown block parties.

Federal stimulus funds and layoffs of support staff helped Ravenswood City School District, which has schools in Menlo Park and East Palo Alto, pass a 2009-2010 operating budget Thursday night that is 9 percent below last year's. "This has been a very difficult and challenging year in terms of constant reductions in our budget," Superintendent ...

Two well-known East Palo Alto police detectives are leaving the force, but the department has hired three officers and is on track to be fully staffed for the first time in its history, police said Monday.

Steve and Beth Griffith and their family thought they were well on their way to living an energy-saving green lifestyle.

While cities across the state are dipping into their savings to weather the recession, Menlo Park is barely touching a massive "rainy-day" fund it has slowly but surely built up over the years.

Authorities are searching for at least two men who were involved in a carjacking in East Palo Alto, which led to a high-speed pursuit that ended with the suspects fleeing on foot near a movie theater in Union City early this morning, a Menlo Park police sergeant said.