13+ hour, 49+ 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…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (229+ words) Menlo Park resident Andres Alberto Henriquez Gomez, 52, has been identified as the man who died after he was assaulted in East Palo Alto on Sept. 3, according to East Palo Alto police. The suspect, who was quickly arrested and booked into…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (639+ words) The East Palo Alto City Council offered a boost to a 430-unit housing project for school staff and residents at 2120-2160 Euclid Ave. when it approved last week the affordability levels for units in the new development. Under the plans, which…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (364+ words) Elinda Oxlaj remembers her sister Irma as kind and hardworking. “She was doing good. She was working so hard to try to send everything to her kids and her mom and support them as much as she can,” Elinda Oxlaj…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (416+ words) Michael Mashack, a planning commissioner who founded the Bay Area Urban Eagles, a nonprofit dedicated to youth workforce development in the aviation industry, is running for the East Palo Alto City Council. Mashack has lived in East Palo Alto for…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (161+ words) Gennady Sheyner is the editor of Palo Alto Weekly and Palo Alto Online. As a former staff writer, he has won awards for his coverage of elections, land use, business, technology and breaking news. Gennady grew up in San Francisco…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (105+ words) Palo Alto Online Federal officials say a planned ICE facility in South County will typically house about 10 detainees, according to the most detailed official statement yet released outlining the project. New court documents filed last week lay out the legal…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (735+ words) Converting retail to housing is one of the pillars of Palo Alto’s plan to create a new residential neighborhood on San Antonio Road, a historically commercial corridor that borders the city of Mountain View. The speedier approval process was due…...