Palo Alto News

David S. Moore , chief business officer at Ocera Therapeutics , is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities.

Palo Alto's vehicle habitation ban should be put on hold for at least a year, according to Palo Alto's city manager, who stated a related case in the U.S. Court of Appeals may have impacts on the ordinance.

Editor's note: From now through Christmas, we'll be checking in at various Menlo Park merchants to get gift ideas, with an eye to shopping locally.

Palo Alto residents' ongoing frustration over worsening traffic surfaced again Wednesday night, even as city transportation planners tried to explain what they're doing to meet the public's rising demand for more accurate and informed traffic analyses.

A mixed-use project proposed for the corner of Hamilton Avenue and Ramona Street in Palo Alto is poised to move forward following the city council's rejection this week of an appeal signed by 23 residents.

Left: Paly students enter the Viking Stadium football field after an alarm went off during fifth period.

The Palo Alto Fire Department has burned through half of its annual overtime budget -- $718,000 -- during this fiscal year compared with $571,000 spent during this period last year.

The infant daughter of Washington state U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler is back home in Camas this week after spending months under the supervision of doctors in California.

Among the personalized items available at Occasions, Etc., in Menlo Park are newborn baby T-shirts that spell out "iPoo'd" and "Change Me."

Fresno State wide receiver Davante Adams, a redshirt sophomore wide receiver from Palo Alto High, has been named the winner of the 2013 Paul Warfield Award, the Touchdown Club of Columbus announced.

The board will hold a study session to discuss enrollment trends and plans to open a 13th elementary school in Palo Alto.

Palo Alto adopted an ordinance Monday to require circuitry for charging electric vehicles in all newly built homes, a move aimed at helping make Palo Alto "the most electric-vehicle-friendly city in the world."

Nest converted a surplus fire truck into a marketing vehicle to sell its "smart" smoke and carbon monoxide sensors.

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."