Gennady Sheyner

City Council’s adopts new priorities, with greater focus on public safety

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Palo Alto resident allegedly yelled racial epithet, chased woman

With medical calls surging and wildfire risks growing, council tries to reconcile competing priorities

A push by the city and county to go back to grass on playing fields faces resistance as demand for fields rises.

A Palo Alto resident and Gunn High School graduate was identified by the magazine WIRED on Sunday as one of the engineers who is working with billionaire Elon Musk to gain access to federal government infrastructure and sensitive records from civil servants.

Ethan Shaotran identified by WIRED as one of six young engineers who are wresting access to data and infrastructure from government departments

Every year, Palo Alto banks on federal, state and regional grants to pay for items like police equipment, rail corridor redesign and airport upgrades. The city's current system for managing these grants, however, lacks oversight and coordination, with officials routinely failing to follow the existing policy and to track expenditures, according to a new audit.

A Palo Alto man who worked as a night supervisor for janitorial services at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Hospital has been convicted by a federal jury for aggravated sexual abuse.

When Palo Alto began to reconstruct Boulware Park in late 2023, city leaders and residents of Ventura viewed the project as a big victory. But with construction now nearing the finish line and completion anticipated in March, some Ventura residents are now raising alarms about an element of the project that caught many by surprise: synthetic turf at their new playground.