Election 2018: Council contenders
This year's five candidates for Palo Alto City Council offer a blend of the familiar and the new. Read the full story here... Last comment on Oct 13, 2018 at 2:37 pm | 13 comments

City proposes retention basin under Bol Park
A proposal by the city of Palo Alto to put a stormwater-retention pond under Cornelis Bol Park would serve to remove hazardous... Last comment 7 hours ago | 24 comments

Editorial: Filseth, DuBois and Cormack for City Council
For a more productive council that hopefully will focus on solutions rather than political gamesmanship or personal insults,... Last comment 11 hours ago | 140 comments

Editorial: Ken Dauber, Shounak Dharap for Palo Alto school board
With the strongest board in decades and a new management team, the Palo Alto school district is in the process of a desperately... Last comment on Oct 8, 2018 at 12:51 pm | 41 comments

Peninsula Foodist
by Elena Kadvany
San Francisco's Urban Ritual boba pops up in Redwood City
Oct 16, 2018 | 0 comments

Stories of Hope
by Aldis Petriceks
Learning Disabilities and the Struggle to Be Known
Oct 15, 2018 | 1 comment

A Pragmatist's Take
by Douglas Moran
Non-Player Character: Can you be mistaken for an IRL-NPC?
Oct 15, 2018 | 5 comments

Supervisors gear up for negotiations with Stanford
As Stanford University is preparing to kick off negotiations with Santa Clara County on an unprecedented development agreement to guide the university's long-term growth, Palo Alto's school officials and residents are growing increasingly alarmed about being left out. Tuesday, 4:38 PM

Palo Alto looks to scrap outdated fees

Council intrigued by San Antonio housing plan

Firefighters, police brass get raises in new contracts

Board backs new $222M psychiatric hospital for kids

Editorial: Karen Holman for Midpeninsula Open Space board

Khoury's Market set to open in College Terrace

Prep report: Volleyball league leaders are victorious
Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division girls volleyball leader Menlo-Atherton barely escaped with a five-set victory on Tuesday, converting the trickery into treats in a 21-25, 25-11, 25-19, 24-26, 15-3 victory over HMB to remain a game ahead of Aragon with two matches left on the regular-season schedule. Wednesday, 2:25 AM

Former Stanford golfer Hamlin passes away from cancer

M-A grad Melvin earns AL Manager of the Year honors

Of local note: Mud is just a part of cross country races

Prep report: SHP girls tennis roll over Hillsdale

Cardinal corner: Field hockey earns shootout victory

Team USA knocked out of FIVB Women's World Championship

First Man

Damien Chazelle's "First Man" -- about astronaut Neil Armstrong during the space-race years -- opens with Armstrong on a solo test flight 140,000 feet above the Mojave Desert. We hear engines revving, a chassis rattling; then, we see Ryan Gosling's A...... Read the full review

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