Palo Alto News

Q Some of our local leaders are crafting plans to reduce El Camino Real to two lanes from Santa Clara to Palo Alto to make room for dedicated express bus lanes.

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital , out of room at its six-year-old specialty center in Los Gatos, has purchased a 63,000-square-foot medical complex in the West Valley for $24.5 million.

A minor driving a car struck a woman in her 30s as she was walking her child to school Tuesday morning, Dec. 10. Map courtesy of Google.

For those seeking work in Palo Alto - or those who are looking for a new job, or even a second job - here's a list of local job openings from indeed.com .

Author Betsy Franco and her son, artist Tom Franco, are on the same wavelength. Frequent collaborators, they're given to finishing each other's sentences.

Hot damn! Could Sriracha get any more popular? When it comes to the ubiquitous hot sauce, I'm as much a fan as the next girl.

MARK KITAOKA/CARLA BEFERA PUBLIC RELATIONS From left, Arielle Fishman, Emily Koch, Sharon Rietkerk and Julia Belanoff star as the March sisters in TheatreWorks' adapotation of "Little Women."

Friends of the Palo Alto Library is holding their next monthly sale of reasonably-priced gently used books, CDs, DVDs, software, games and puzzles, artwork, collectibles, and much more on Saturday, September 13 and Sunday, September 14, 2013 at Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

Stanford's football team may be grabbing all the headlines these days, but culture lovers have something to cheer about as well.

Image Caption: The fine detail in images of prominences in the sun's atmosphere from NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer - such as the red swirls shown here - are challenging the way scientists understand such events.

In a written statement issued Monday, Merrill Newman, of Palo Alto, Calif., said he tried to show that the words he read on the recording were not his own by emphasizing the apology's awkward phrasing and poor English grammar.

SAN FRANCISCO - The 85-year-old U.S. veteran who was detained for weeks by North Korea said Monday that the videotaped confession in which he apologized for killing North Koreans during the war was given involuntarily and under duress.

DoorDash , a meal-delivery start-up earning raves in Palo Alto and Mountain View , is hiring engineers, sales and customer service staff, plus delivery drivers, with a giant perk -- lunch, dinner, snacks and drinks are free! Launched in early 2013 by four tech-savvy Stanford University students, DoorDash is a logistics-focused outfit that delivers ... (more)

U.S. tourist and Korean War veteran Merrill Newman arrives at the Beijing airport Saturday, December 7, after being released by North Korea.

Surgeons use a grid of electrodes laid on a patient's brain. They record electrical activity and can deliver a tiny jolt.

The Northern California Bluegrass Society has announced that the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Awards will honor four long-time bluegrass music teachers - Bill Evans, Steve Palazzo, Jack Tuttle, and Lee Anne Welch.

Residents have noticed an increase in noise over areas of Atherton, Redwood City, Menlo Park and Palo Alto.

World-Renowned Soul Healer Master Zhi Gang Sha Brings 9 Sacred Chinese Calligraphy Art Scrolls Featured in Bestselling Book to San Francisco, CA December 9 - 11, 2013 New York Times bestselling author and founder of Soul Mind Body Medicine and Divine Channel, Master Zhi Gang Sha brings his acclaimed nine sacred Chinese calligraphy scrolls back to ... (more)

Third grader Bryce Ammons braces himself for a lick from the Palo Alto Humane Society's dog Rookie during a visit at Beechwood School in Menlo Park on August 2, 2013.

Sen. Hill Announces 2014 'Oughta Be a Law' Contest . Your ideas for reforms and improvements could become reality! Submissions due Jan. 15. Palo Alto Weekender: Paly Fiery Arts; 300+ Creche Display; 'Caring Santa ' -Fun options for your weekend plans.