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I worked with Jen as a fellow Parks Commissoner, and she is a terrific person to work from a City Perspective.

The slower that physicians withdraw endoscopes during colonoscopies, the fewer polyps and adenomas they'll miss, according to research presented last week at Digestive Disease Week in Orlando, Fla.

After five years, it's long past time for the City Council to take action and prohibit overnight vehicle habitation Compassion and support for the downtrodden has always been an important part of the Palo Alto culture, but city leaders have done the community a disservice by allowing the problem of vehicle dwelling to languish for more than five ... (more)

But Chrysler cried foul and issued a playful retort. "The information is unmistakably incorrect," wrote Chrysler spokesman Gualberto Ranieri on a company blog.

String instruments sit in the music room at Gunn High School in Palo Alto on Thursday, May 23, 2013.

President Barack Obama will return to the Peninsula on June 6 for two more fundraising events, this time in Palo Alto and Portola Valley.

A knife was brandished and a car window smashed when two men got into a fight at a Mountain View gas station early Tuesday morning, according to police.

Those people, clearly, haven't attended a Community Tuesday, a new lineup of activities every Tuesday at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto.

Downtown office-supply store Congdon and Crome will close, nearly 110 years after its opening in Palo Alto in 1904.

Jay Thorwaldson's Blog , posted by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus, 1 hour ago Jay Thorwaldson is a member of Palo Alto Online In about eight years, the Palo Alto Adult School will be observing its 100th anniversary -- a century of promoting the notion that learning can be for a lifetime.

A Palo Alto-based independent school for children with dyslexia will hold an information night for prospective families Wednesday, May 29.

Everyone agrees that Palo Alto, a city with a graying population and sky-high property values, has a drought of housing for low-income seniors.

An associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University has been charged with felony parent abduction after taking her three children on what authorities contend was a one-way trip to the Hawaiian Islands.

Anyone who has ever wrestled with athlete's foot knows there is something about feet that fungi seem to like.

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday posted a big drop in earnings for the second fiscal quarter, though the adjusted results beat Wall Street's and sent the stock on an after-hours rally.

Hackers, designers and Silicon Valley technophiles will flood downtown Palo Alto's most prominent gathering spot with food, music, TED-style talks and gizmos galore on June 1 as part of the city's -- and the nation's -- inaugural festival to celebrate "civic hacking." In what the city's Chief Information Officer Jonathan Reichental called "a first ... (more)

A lawsuit has been filed by Menlo Park physician Dr. Jean W. Gillon over an incident in the early morning darkness of Dec.

Ragazzi Continuo, the Ragazzi Boys Chorus alumni, had their concert last week, and now it's the turn of the current Ragazzi to celebrate the organization's 25th anniversary .

A ground-breaking advance in colonoscopy technology signals the future of colorectal care, according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week .

Pres. Barack Obama is slated to visit the Bay Area for a round of fundraisers next month, according to reports.