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 ...

This week: concerts with Latin folk musician Diana Gameros and Martha High's Funky Divas; a tribute to the music of Willie Nelson will raise funds for LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

West Bay Opera spins some vocal confections with Bellini's sleep-walking melodrama "La sonnambula." The opera is rarely staged, so this production offers quite an opportunity to catch it.

In summary California’s new Low Carbon Fuel Standard has been stalled because it lacks ”clarity.” The new standard, which offers incentives for cleaner fuels, is highly controversial because it would ...

Two students walk to class at Los Padres Elementary School in Salinas on Feb. 11, 2025. Photo by Larry Valenzuela,/CatchLight Local As the setting for John Steinbeck’s 1950s classic “East of Eden,” ...

At Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ’Ootchamin ’Ooyakma, a group of researchers — self described “fire followers” — convened on Feb. 18 to explore how prescribed burns, indigenous knowledge ...

The timing could not have been better — or worse. The horrendously destructive and deadly Los Angeles wildfires erupted in January just as Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s historic and very ...