The Palo Alto Unified School District on Thursday (March 12) released the settlement agreement in which it agreed to pay $3.25 million to middle school PE teacher Peter Colombo after he had been ...

Homeowners are pushing back on a plea by parents and students to close a railroad crossing by Palo Alto High School as a way to prevent more suicides. Homeowners are worried about ambulances taking ...

• In mid-February, the district agreed to pay $3.25 million to PE teacher Peter Colombo, who claimed he was falsely accused ...

If you feel like your social media feed is designed to make you angry, you’re not imagining it. Outrage drives clicks, shares, and time-on-site — and it spikes before elections, when candidates and ...

The new water rate hike would follow a 10% increase for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30. In each of the previous two years, the city raised water rates by 5%. Other utility rate hikes for ...

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe announced today (March 9) that he has decided not to retry the 18 felonies that a jury deadlocked on in the case against former San Mateo County ...

A Palo Alto man who was a coach at a now-closed North Fair Oaks school has been arrested for allegedly having sexual relationships with two students, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office ...