The Palo Alto Unified School District’s $905 parcel tax, which funds nearly 5% of the district’s budget, expires at the end of next school year. Tomorrow, the school board will discuss a plan to get ...

A $160 birthday cake that former Las Lomitas School District Superintendent Beth Polito charged to a district credit card in August 2022 is one example of a potentially inappropriate gift of public ...

Seven people have applied to become San Mateo County’s next sheriff, following the ousting of former Sheriff Christina Corpus ...

Santa Clara County voters are on track to approve a 5/8 percent sales tax increase, which proponents say will fund the count’s public hospital system amid federal cuts, in tonight’s special election.

Los Altos City Councilwoman Neysa Fligor leads in the race to be the next Santa Clara County Assessor, but looks poised for a runoff with former Saratoga Councilman Rishi Kumar, after the county ...

The fire caused an estimated $50,000 in damage, according to the fire department. Firefighters traced the fire’s origin to a closet, where a candle caused a shelf to ignite. They determined that the ...

UPDATE 3 p.m. — As police, fire and coroner officials continue to investigate the early morning fire that resulted in the deaths of two people, neighbors and customers have told the Post that two ...

At 11:37 a.m., the evacuation order for most of downtown Los Altos was lifted. The only exemption is for the building at 199 First St., which firefighters are still ventilating, according to a notice ...

Police in Redwood City have arrested a man they believe set a fire that forced three people out of their apartments. The fire broke out at 7:53 a.m. Saturday (Nov. 1) in an apartment building in the ...

Bryan Do, president of a San Jose school board, hopes to make the Santa Clara County Assessor more transparent.

Supervisors Noelia Corzo, Lisa Gauthier and Ray Mueller voted to appoint a sheriff for the remainder of former sheriff ...

Corpus had to convince San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Nina Shapirshteyn that she should be returned to the office of ...