In September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency to help prepare for the coming rainy season. While it's too soon to know how much the predicted El Niño pattern will affect ...

Conservationists are celebrating after a North American river otter was sighted recently along the San Mateo coast for the first time in more than 100 years.

When Principal Alicia Payton-Miyazaki was a student at Oak Knoll Elementary School, she played at the foot of the nearly ...

Voters in San Mateo County are deciding this November on whether the Board of Supervisors should get extra time to figure out ...

San Mateo County Measure U is a ballot measure that would establish an independent redistricting commission charged with ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The state workers who are planning the first-ever statewide walkout in 44 years this week once were on much better ...

Vacant storefronts, aging buildings, and broken street infrastructure shouldn't define downtown Menlo Park, writes Marnie Foody, chair of the Downtown Menlo Fund.

Paint and warning signs aren’t enough to protect cyclists on Highways 84 and 35. Safer bicycle infrastructure, speed cameras and alternative routes through the Santa Cruz Mountains are needed to ...

Voters in San Mateo County are being asked this November whether to add new provisions in the county’s Charter Preamble related to extreme weather preparedness and reinforcing equal rights for all ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Although California lawmakers recently passed a suite of laws intended to bring transparency to the development of new ...

The proponents of Measure P profess to be trying to “save” downtown Menlo Park. The question is for whom. It seems unlikely the answer is for the residents of Menlo Park, writes Bob Dickinson.

As a local public school worker, a renter who loves Menlo Park, and someone who supports more affordable housing, I am voting Yes on Measure P, and I want to share why, writes Shannon Fischer.