In a short amount of time, the former suburb known as Palo Alto has gone from a sleepy Peninsula town that bred the likes of Teri Hatcher and James Franco to giving birth to some of the world’s ...

The Palo Alto Unified School District owns a majority of land at Cubberley Community Center, a former high school at 4000 Middlefield Road. Embarcadero Media file photo by Veronica Weber.

On Nov. 10 the municipality, known for its Silicon Valley roots, announced the deployment of BuildingEye, a platform that maps building permits, planning applications and other construction ...

Beneath a grove of redwood trees at Peers Park in Palo Alto, there is a cracked and faded plaque that pays tribute to one of the worst disasters in the history of the U.S. space program.The plaque … ...

Click here if you can’t see the map above on your mobile device. A helicopter will spray wetlands in Palo Alto and San Jose on Wednesday as part of a mosquito abatement program.