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Stanford looks into 3 sexual assaultsThree separate sexual assaults at Stanford University were reported between late Friday and early Saturday, according to campus officials.
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Teacher housing plan goes out for bidsSanta Clara County is looking to partner with a developer to design a development that could bring up to 120 units of affordable housing for regional teachers and school staff.
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A new air-pollution solutionThe city of Palo Alto has launched a pilot program to encourage residents to replace their traditional gas water heaters with heat pump water heaters that operate with electricity.
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The best time of the year for hoopsThe Pinewood girls basketball team always seem to relish the CCS girls basketball Open Division playoffs. A win Wednesday puts the Panthers in the title game. (Photo by David Hickey.)
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The Other Greenhouse GasMethane is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide -- about 86 times worse when measured over a 20-year period.
Palo Alto scraps downtown office cap
Palo Alto’s bitter debate over how much commercial growth the city should accommodate heated up Monday night, when a divided... Last comment 23 hours ago | 82 comments
Editorial: A housing setback
Monday night's 4-3 decision to repeal a decades-old downtown growth policy designed to trigger a one-year pause on non-residential... Last comment 11 hours ago | 52 comments
Report: Inequality on the rise in Silicon Valley
Despite a sizzling economy and an influx of wealth, Silicon Valley remains a bastion of inequality, with more residents now... Last comment 21 minutes ago | 39 comments
Newsom scales back high-speed-rail plans
California's decade-long dream of building a high-speed rail system between San Francisco and Los Angeles hit a dead end... Last comment 19 hours ago | 107 comments
Invest & Innovate
by Steve Levy
Who Pays for Palo Alto Schools
Feb 19, 2019 | 9 comments
Peninsula Foodist
by Elena Kadvany
Beer and brats: Ludwig's German Table coming to Mountain View
Feb 19, 2019 | 3 comments
Thinking About College
by John Raftrey and Lori McCormick
College Tours
Feb 18, 2019 | 0 comments
Short story writers wanted!
The 33rd Annual Palo Alto Weekly Short Story Contest is now accepting entries for Adult, Young Adult (15-17) and Teen (12-14) categories. Send us your short story (2,500 words or less) and entry form by March 29. First, Second and Third Place prizes awarded in each category.
Former Palo Alto transportation head dies at 71
No matter how daunting a task, Joseph Kott believed that Palo Alto and the greater Silicon Valley region could become a national model for how to cope with a deluge of motor vehicles. Tuesday, 4:33 PM | 2 comments
Episode 171: Charter school expansion debate; downtown office cap repealed
Report: Inequality on the rise in Silicon Valley
Three Stanford students report sexual assaults
Community meetings to explore new cross-bay link between San Mateo, Alameda counties
Top girls hoop seeds Priory, SH Prep advance to semifinals
Shannon Fitzgerald made her coach proud by the way she competed during Priory's 74-33 victory over visiting Summit Shasta in the quarterfinals of the Central Coast Section girls Division V playoffs on Tuesday night. Wednesday, 3:38 AM
Palo Alto boys reach CCS Division I basketball semifinals
CCS hoops: Eastside Prep does just enough to play another day
Paly survives and Bears roar in CCS girls Division I hoops
Stanford's Wu playing for his first collegiate title
Arctic
Few films have ever kept it simpler -- in terms of plot and character -- than "Arctic," a calling card from Brazilian YouTube sensation and first-time feature filmmaker Joe Penna. Granted, the 19-day shoot in Iceland probably wasn't very simple, but ...... Read the full review
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