After 70 years of operation, the family-owned Country Inn Motel in Palo Alto will close Aug. 11, making way for a new 29-unit townhouse development. The business at 4345 El Camino Real, managed by ...

Slow down. Somebody needs to tell that to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, which appears hell-bent to beat a Friday (Aug. 8) deadline to put a sales tax on the November ballot. Normally, a ...

A San Mateo County jury in 2002 found Hensley guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Noble, who was his roommate in a Mountain View apartment. Prosecutors said Hensley’s motive was that he ...

Palo Alto council may approve a new agreement with police officers for a 3.5% raise and a $200 bonus each month. The raises ...

A judge has dismissed Bullis Charter School’s lawsuit that alleged the Santa Clara County Board of Education is imposing ...

Santa Clara County officials are quietly preparing to put on the November ballot a sales tax increase to bail out the county ...

A construction crew in Belmont has halted work after discovering human remains. Authorities have ruled out the possibility that the remains found in Twin Pines Park were those of Ylva Hagner, 42, of ...

Former Nike CEO John Donahoe has been hired as athletic director at Stanford. Donahoe will become the school’s eighth ...

San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus says she is fighting attempts to remove her from office and says her critics’ “time ...

Bay Area politicians have decided they want to raise the sales tax by a half-cent to as much as 10% to bail out BART, ...

San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus, who is facing the prospect of removal from office due to alleged corruption and ...