A man’s attempt to rob a Palo Alto home Sunday was foiled when he stopped to drink wine at the kitchen table, police say.

Galatolo, 60, of Menlo Park, is accused of taking bribes from contractors hired to expand and renovate the college, which has campuses in Redwood City, San Mateo and San Bruno. The work was funded by ...

Burglars have smashed multiple glass doors attempting to enter three homes in Atherton in the past four days, following a community safety meeting about burglaries in town. The first burglary reported ...

San Mateo County Sheriff’s Capt. Eamonn Allen has been living in the Millbrae police station and commuting to his home in Boise, over 650 miles away, a London newspaper reports. The news comes as ...

A flasher exposed himself to a teenage girl near the 100 block of Embarcadero Road in Palo Alto, police said. The incident happened around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday (Oct. 21) when the victim, a high ...

San Mateo County is the first in California to remove a sheriff chosen by voters. Without any precedent to act as a guide, ...

Former Saratoga City Councilman Rishi Kumar is running as the outsider candidate in the race to replace longtime Santa Clara ...

Los Altos Vice Mayor Neysa Fligor is running to replace longtime Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone, who hand-picked her as his successor.

Opening statements are expected to begin today (Oct. 27) in the embezzlement trial of former San Mateo County Community College chancellor Ron Galatolo.

Palo Alto City Council unanimously approved the first phase of a four-part plan to get RVs off of city streets last night ...

Her pension will be 90% of her final year’s pay. According to records the county provided to Transparent California, a ...

A Mountain View barber who allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted more than 60 men has been captured in Guatemala and extradited back to the United States, police said yesterday.