Palo Alto News

"Smiling at Strangers" author Rebecca Wallace grew up in Menlo Park and is now the Weekly's arts editor.

It was one of the most notorious murder cases in Palo Alto history. A man clobbered his wife seven times on the head, strangled her, and tried to disguise the crime by making it appear she fell down the stairs.

Q There seems to be a lot of work remaining on Highway 101 in Mountain View. Is the timetable still to open the new lanes by the end of this year? I'm getting worried the answer is no.

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based technology giant was planning to cut 1,100 jobs in the U.K., according to BBC News.

We received this email from InMenlo reader Kristy Holch, who is a member of First Church Christ, Scientis t on Ravenswood and Middlefield in Menlo Park: "I thought it might be interesting news how local churches are supporting the situation surrounding Merrill Newman, the Palo Alto man being held in North Korea.

Mohamed Benyouref of Berkeley was arrested for stealing a wallet on Black Friday in Palo Alto.

The Palo Alto Art Center has two events this week: The Gallery Shop sale all day Thursday; and a free Family Day Saturday.

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Gynecologist Dr. Leah Millheiser talks with a new patient at Stanford in Palo Alto, California, on Wednesday, November 13, 2013.

SEOUL, South Korea Six decades before he went to North Korea as a curious tourist, Merrill Newman supervised a group of South Korean guerrillas during the Korean War who were perhaps the most hated and feared fighters in the North, former members of the group say.

The term PC zoning is city jargon for allowing the higher density that is dramatically contributing to the building growth we are experiencing in Palo Alto.

The Palo Alto City Council showed little interest Monday night in suspending a controversial type of zoning known as planned community, despite calls from the public to do so.

Few would say that traffic in Palo Alto has been getting better in recent years, yet that was what graphs in a city staff report appeared to depict, which raised red flags and frustrations for some City Council members Monday night.

Katherine colors in her pencil drawings during Comic Book & Illustration class at the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View.

Standard Statham action gets a solid acting boost courtesy of James Franco in the Louisiana-based "Homefront."

Guitarist and Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman returns to his Palo Alto roots next month with a local concert.

The city's Finance Committee tonight will discuss a plan to modify Palo Alto's street-sweeping program in order to cut costs.

Those of you who read our weekly Ask D'Mine column know what a skeptic Wil Dubois is.

Sitting in front of my computer in my office on the East Coast, I am controlling a robot in Palo Alto, California.

Won't you consider contributing a few hours a week to help keep our five Palo Alto libraries up-to-date and thriving? Friends of the Palo Alto Library's monthly sales of donated books and media raise much-needed funds to purchase new books, furniture, technology, and special programs.