Palo Alto City Council tonight (Jan. 6) picked Ed Lauing as mayor and Vicki Veenker as vice mayor, putting her in line for the top spot next year. Tonight’s vote was 7-0 with no other nominations ...

Police officers are following “promising leads” in response to a series of overnight restaurant burglaries that have left owners and employees on edge, Capt. Zach Perron said at a meeting with the ...

San Mateo County Sheriff’s deputies yesterday (Jan. 5) arrested a man for an alleged attempted burglary at SLAC National ...

Perry the donkey, who had a long and loving connection with Palo Alto residents and other members of his herd in the Barron ...

Burglars targeted a handful of downtown Palo Alto restaurants over the past week, police said. It started at Local 271 on Dec. 23 when several people broke into the restaurant at 271 University Ave.

Former San Mateo County Sheriff Chief of Staff Victor Aenlle is trying to get a lawsuit against him thrown out of court. He and sheriff Christina Corpus have been sued by former deputies union ...

Palo Alto city planners are threatening to shut down a cat lounge and adoption center at the Stanford Shopping Center because ...

In the second attack, on Oct. 18, 2009, Muller allegedly “broke into a Palo Alto home, bound and gagged a woman in her 30s and made her drink Nyquil,” prosecutors said. Muller allegedly started to ...

Mountain View police Chief Mike Canfield didn’t tell the public about a gunman outside Panera, shots fired at Rengstorff Park or an RV dweller who had meth and three guns, including a high-capacity AR ...