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Stanford puts lab on the market
After moving hundreds of employees into a gleaming, state-of-the-art Palo Alto laboratory roughly a year and a half ago, Stanford Hospital is selling the facility and more than 300 workers could be laid off, ...
Palo Alto will not host any segment of the next Amgen Tour of California, race organizers announced Wednesday.
For years, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center - SLAC to its friends - has been a reserved and orderly universe.
'Compost fire' breaks out at landfill
A "compost fire" erupted late Wednesday afternoon at the Palo Alto landfill, spewing clouds of gray smoke over the city and its neighbors to the south.
Pharmaceutical could bolt from Palo Alto
Palo Alto will lose one of its largest - and greenest - employers if the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche succeeds in its bid to buy South San Francisco-based Genentech.
Supervisors trying to preserve watersheds
Protecting streams and creeks from the pressures of urban development seems like a laudable goal but when the county gets involved, finding common ground on the issue can be tough.
Two get promoted in sheriff's office
The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office has announced the promotion of two of its employees.
SEC to freeze assets of adviser
The Securities and Exchange Commission moved Wednesday to freeze the assets of a Hillsborough investment adviser who allegedly stole more than $20 million from hundreds of investors, most of them Bay Area ...
Law targets school finance schemes
A new state law authored by Assemblyman Gene Mullin, D-South San Francisco, takes aim at the kind of risky school construction financing schemes that helped plunge the San Mateo Union High School District into ...
Recycling center price tag questioned
The skyrocketing cost estimates for building a regional recycling plant has raised a red flag with a Burlingame official.
Trash truck takes out power lines
A garbage truck took out more than just the trash on Regent Street in Redwood City on Wednesday.
In several Daily News reports, the first name of homicide victim Philip Lacy was misspelled, due to errors in police department press releases.
BREAKING NEWS: Fire breaks out at Palo Alto landfill
Firefighters from Palo Alto and Menlo Park are fighting a fire at the Palo Alto landfill today.
BREAKING NEWS: 'Tour' bypassing Palo Alto
Palo Alto will not host any segment of this winter's Amgen Tour of California, race organizers announced today.
Law casts shadow over solar panels
In Silicon Valley's famous "trees vs. solar panels" battle, the trees have won. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill into law Tuesday that guarantees if California property owners plant a tree before a ...
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