For Palo Alto Fire Chief Geo Blackshire, the best type of home to come across during a fire is an empty one. It’s even better ...

The City of East Palo Alto is moving forward with a youth representative program, or youth commission, as local kids seek ...

"Tempest" by Jeff Dobrow is one of three pieces by 3D projection mapping artists that will transform the façade of Palo Alto City Hall as part of Code:ART, the city's interactive media festival held ...

Palo Alto’s epic, expensive and ever-shifting quest to redesign its rail corridor is back in the spotlight with the city and ...

From an all-woman jazz collective to an opera that gets biblical, here's a sampling of things to do this weekend.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Weeks after Southern California Edison announced initial details of its compensation program for survivors of the ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. With the highest military population in California, San Diego County is bracing for missed paychecks and a run on ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s outgoing cybersecurity commander says the state is mismanaging its limited cybersecurity resources by ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A large fire burns at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo on Oct. 2, 2025. Photo by Jonathan Alcorn, ZUMA Press Wire ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. An explosion rattled windows across nearby neighborhoods. Orange columns of flame shot like blowtorches out of stacks ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Forty years ago this month, I began a 9,000-mile tour of California, gathering data, conversations and observations ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California is the first state in the country to ban ultraprocessed foods from school meals, aiming to transform how ...