A Flock camera alert led officers to a vehicle linked to two Haven Avenue vehicle burglaries and recovered stolen property.
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Do you support police using license-plate cameras to help solve crimes in your community?
Coverage here follows city government, San Mateo County, local school districts, technology, business and public safety in Menlo Park, the Capital of Venture Capital. Reporting reaches neighborhoods across the city and surrounding communities.
Sosefo Ahofono received a prison sentence following a no-contest plea for a shooting at a Menlo Park 7-Eleven.
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Do you trust your local school board to run the district well?
Early returns show three candidates ahead in the race for three open seats on the Menlo Park City School District board.
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Do rising minimum wages make it harder for your local restaurants to stay open?
The Bay Area Italian chain will open at 635 Santa Cruz Ave. after Left Bank Brasserie closed in June following a 28-year run.
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Do you view regular corporate dividend payments as a reliable sign of a company's future stability?
The engineering and scientific consulting firm will distribute $0.31 per share to stockholders of record in December.
The context infrastructure stores semantics, knowledge, memory, traces, and evaluations in a single system, unveiled at PhoenixAI's NEXT QUERY 2026 summit.
Day to day, that means city council decisions, San Mateo County policy and Menlo Park City School District, Las Lomitas Elementary School District and Sequoia Union High School District alongside the venture capital and technology employers that define the local economy. From Central Menlo Park and Allied Arts to Sharon Heights, The Willows and Belle Haven, neighborhood coverage extends into Santa Clara County, San Francisco County and Alameda County where stories cross the line. The concentration of venture capital and major technology firms ties local land use, traffic and housing decisions to the fortunes of the broader tech sector in ways that distinguish the city's coverage from most Bay Area suburbs. Development density and school district boundaries are the recurring subjects in city hall reporting.
