A new proposal to enhance car-free California Avenue with planters, road improvements and a playful "modern optimism" ...

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, ...

A small plane ran off the runway at Palo Alto Airport on Saturday afternoon, drifting into the Baylands Nature Preserve and prompting a fire department response.