Palo Alto News

Palo Alto filmmaker Vanessa Warheit was riding her bicycle, surrounded by cars in traffic, when the "poop analogy" occurred to her.

Palo Alto parent Amy Kacher displays two different EpiPen kits, which enable untrained people to administer the drug Epinephrine in cases of severe allergic reaction.

The 6th Annual Dining Out for Life Silicon Valley is Thursday -- April 24 -- and participating restaurants will donate a portion of the day's proceeds to the Health Trust/AIDS Services.

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is moving into Sunnyvale for the first time as it stretches out in the region to put services closer to patients.

TIME INFORMATION ON YOUR PHONE USING OUR APP. A ROCK CLIMBER WHO SURVIVED A FALL AT YOSEMITE IS TALKING ABOUT HIS ORDEAL FROM HIS HOSPITAL BED.

The US Food and Drug Administration has suggested that surgeons refrain from using tissue-grinding tools to remove uteruses or uterine growths because they increase the risk of spreading undetected cancer.

A 26-year-old male rock climber fell roughly 30 feet from a granite rock face at Yosemite National Park's Cathedral range Sunday, and was airlifted out after sustaining severe injuries.

It was announced this Monday that "Silicon Valley," the Mike Judge-helmed HBO sitcom filmed in and around Palo Alto, has been green lit for a second season by its parent network.

After years of talking about the benefits of a "modernized" Caltrain system, Palo Alto officials on Monday shifted their attention to the thorny impacts of the project, which include downed trees, traffic impacts on Alma Street intersections and a new power station that officials say would bring a new eyesore to the Greenmeadow neighborhood.

Liberals advocate many wonderful things. In fact, I suspect that most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world envisioned by liberals, rather than in the kind of world envisioned by conservatives.

El Camino Hospital has made more real estate purchases in Los Gatos that it will use in the future to build out the hospital.

It took more than seven years for Palo Alto to draw up a new vision for the neighborhoods around California Avenue, and about an hour for an ambivalent City Council to kick this vision back to the drawing board Monday night.

Redwood City's Annual "Preschool Preview Night": A Preschool/Child Care & Parent Resource Fair Annual fair highlighting various early care and education programs from Belmont to Palo Alto has become key annual resource for parents making important child care decisions Redwood City, Calif.

New course offerings for next year, the proposed issuance of a facilities bond and a $250,000 donation to Jordan Middle School are among the topics up for discussion by the Palo Alto Board of Education Tuesday, April 22. The new courses, all proposed for Palo Alto High School, include computer science, early childhood development and a new, ... (more)

Authorities say a rock climber at Yosemite National Park had to be rescued by helicopter after falling 30 feet and suffering major injuries.

Instead, the 46-year-old mother of four from Texas uses home remedies or pays $75 to see a doctor when she has an asthma attack.

A huge purchase in the ballpark of $100 million for a 276,551-square-foot Class A office complex in San Mateo was recently announced by Harvest Properties.

A community conversation, Our Palo Alto , about the City's future, with input and participation from citizens, is set for Wednesday -- April 23 -- from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the downtown library.

Mike Moore kisses his son, Memphis, whom he was able to conceive naturally after a plastic surgeon reconstructed his genitalia.

The future of an effort to monitor earthquakes from within the infamous San Andreas fault is on shaky ground.