After thousands of homes were destroyed by the Los Angeles fires in January, local jurisdictions are on high alert for ...

San Mateo County has named Amy Davidson head of its Center on Homelessness, which coordinates homeless services throughout the county.

With a deadline looming and air safety top of mind to many Americans after a spate of recent airplane crashes, San Mateo County politicians are calling on the Federal Aviation Administration to ...

The California Highway Patrol issued a Silver Alert early Friday morning for a missing 75-year-old woman last seen in East Palo Alto on Thursday afternoon.

Adam Hardesty looks through floor plans at his home in Carlsbad on Feb. 19, 2025. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, In a dispute over whether he can convert his three-story condominium’s garage into its own ...

As wildfires swept through Los Angeles County last month, the New York Times published a commentary by former insurance commissioner Dave Jones, who suggested that oil companies should pay for the ...

Former Capt. Brian Philip sues San Mateo County, alleging retaliation, illegal orders, and wrongful termination by Sheriff ...

Community members gathered at the Belle Haven Community Campus in Menlo Park on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 8, to celebrate local business owners and community members, and to listen to music and spoken ...

The Atherton City Council unanimously passed an urgency ordinance to once more regulate backyard chickens after inadvertently ...

Other counties, including Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Francisco, allow their supervisors to remove a sheriff for specific causes with a four-fifths vote. Under Measure A, the sheriff would be ...

“Our mission [is] to serve our community — everyone, regardless of status,” Norris said in an email. He added that police staff, in internal messaging, had “reinforced our relentless pursuit of ...

Menlo Park firefighters were called to a house on O’Keefe Street at 4:34 p.m. on Feb. 20. When they arrived, smoke and flames ...