9+ hour, 46+ min ago   (274+ words) Construction is paused for a planned facility near Gilroy that many local officials suspect may be used as a detention center by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced over the weekend. A judge with the U.S. District…...

23+ hour, 25+ min ago   (699+ words) Lisa Moreno is a journalist who grew up in the East Bay Area. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Print and Online Journalism with a minor in Latino studies from San Francisco State University in 2024. While studying, she interned at…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (650+ words) By Todd Collins and Ken Dauber It’s almost impossible to believe. Over just a few weeks this summer, PAUSD went from its strongest ever financial position to its absolute most dire. When school ended in June, they boasted a record…...

1+ mon, 15+ hour ago   (996+ words) This is the latest in a series of stories by The Six Fifty about clubs and groups around Silicon Valley to meet new people, explore hobbies and foster community. A landscape can sometimes be so picturesque that it looks lifted…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (346+ words) Palo Alto will pay $8 million to settle a long and bitter dispute with the contractor who constructed the city’s new public safety building, a $120-million project that officially opened near California Avenue in the fall of 2025. City leaders blamed Swinerton…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (664+ words) From the red velvet floors, to the tall vaulted ceilings and deep-brown wooden pews illuminated by two full walls of windows, the University AME Zion Church in Palo Alto is striking not only because it was designed to be, but…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (931+ words) “Bugs,” the colloquial term San Mateo entomologist Stephanie Dole uses to refer to insects, are all around us. The term encompasses six-legged wonders such as flies, beetles, grasshoppers and so many more, including “true bugs” belonging to the order Hemiptera;…...

4+ day, 46+ min ago   (788+ words) A divided Palo Alto City Council voted Monday not to release an investigation into former planning commissioner Forest Olaf Peterson, with the majority arguing that the public benefit did not outweigh the potential risk to witnesses who spoke on the…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (260+ words) If your garden is having a chili pepper fest right now—don’t let those beauties go to waste. Why not preserve them to enjoy long after summer has gone? Preserving Chili Peppers: Four Ways to Preserve Your Chili Harvest, is…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (940+ words) Seeking to accommodate more students and shifting academic needs, Stanford University is preparing to add nearly 2 million square feet of academic space, 2,500 student beds and about 500 units of housing for faculty and staff over the next two decades, according to…...