The new San Mateo County Democratic Party Headquarters, located in nearby Belmont, is gearing up for phone banking, community organizing and watching how the Republicans do this week in Tampa.
Representatives not only say it will be more convenient for many voters, but will save county elections offices money.
Library users can access a growing collection of bestsellers, new releases and classic titles as well as heavily illustrated eBooks including children’s storybooks, cookbooks, and craft books.
The San Mateo Bridge is one of the suggested detour routes.
On Wednesday, Aug. 29, volunteers will clean up the Magic Mountain Playground in the Coyote Point Recreation Area in San Mateo.
This free, online quiz takes an in-depth look at your stance on a range of issues, then compares them to candidates' responses.
The Peninsula Humane Society emphasizes the importance of spaying or neutering your pets.
The South Bayfront Levee Improvement Project prevents at least 7,900 San Mateo households from having to purchase mandatory flood insurance.
The popular 390 and 391 SamTrans lines, which now operate along El Camino Real seven days a week, will be merged into one bus line on weekends.
Scientists tracked the sea otters from San Mateo County to the Santa Barbara area.
A bill has passed the State Senate requiring automobiles to pass no closer than three feet to bicyclists. If signed into law, could this prevent more cyclist/vehicle accidents? Take our poll and tell us in the comments.
Student ambassadors get to represent the City at numerous public appearances and speaking engagements, learn about the culture of Japan, and in some cases, get to travel there.
State Assemblyman Jerry Hill is urging the California Public Utilities Commission not to let PG&E saddle ratepayers for nearly $5 billion in costs for upgrading to the state's aging gas transmission system.
A peninsula activist campaigns for an innovative but unlikely solution to the high-speed rail debate.
Farmers market-goers got more than strawberries and sunflowers in nearby San Carlos on Thursday - many were handed 'pink slips' by the a political action group MoveOn.org.
In addition, unemployment fell locally by 1.3 percent in July.
Though California Senator Leland Yee's bill SB 249, which would ban guns with 'bullet buttons,' was scheduled to be heard by the Assembly Appropriations Committee this Thursday, it has been pulled from the calendar.
Department of Motor Vehicles statewide are asking people to reschedule their driving tests in the San Mateo/Foster City area and elsewhere if possible, due to a downed computer system.
Roughly 15 percent more prisoners and probation cases that would normally be sent to or handled by the state prison are now under County control, under realignment.
The County’s Director of Environmental Health donned a costume of plastic bags to throw a little reverse-psychology at locals last week.
In a Patch survey, Republican activists lauded Paul Ryan for his fiscal conservatism and brainpower, while Democrats said the choice could help the Obama campaign.
A state rule bars the legislature from considering new laws that add to the prison population. Does this rule put the communities of Foster City and San Mateo at risk?
The San Mateo County Office of Education participates in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs to provide affordable meals to the county’s students.
The press releases and tweets have been flying since the announcement Saturday morning.
Learn how to avoid scam artists and and telemarketing fraud at a workshop hosted by Assemblymember Jerry Hill.
Thursday night is the last of the free summer concerts in the park this year.
The money would go toward relieving overcrowding in Foster City elementary schools, and making improvements to other schools throughout San Mateo and Foster City.
In the aftermath of two mass shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin, Bay Area lawmakers and gun rights activists disagree on how to proceed.
Right in your backyard is a free museum at SFO. Have you been?
Peninsula leaders will gather on El Camino Real in San Bruno at 10 a.m. Tuesday morning to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the road's groundbreaking.
The federal government has ponied up $3.2 million for modernization, safety.
The President’s recent Bay Area trips have brought national attention and notoriety to Redwood City and others, but even those residents who didn’t attend his fundraisers paid a fee—in traffic and security costs.
Is banning leaf blowers in our City something personal or does it do the greatest good for the most people here in San Mateo?
They join cities like Richmond, Calif. and New York City in mulling over a possible tax as a way of reducing obesity and obesity-related health care costs.
Top Bay Area Libertarians are skeptical about Romney’s record and say they have little faith in him as a voice for small government.
California's budget vice continues to tighten around the State University system, severely limiting the number of students eligible to begin school next spring.
The bullet button gets around the state law banning semi-automatic guns and those with removable magazines.
San Mateo Mayor Brandt Grotte plans to ask his colleagues on the council to ban them outright.
The district claims the fact that a number of Chinese students were denied entrance into Mills and instead sent to Capuchino had to do with failing to adequately prove residency, not the family's race or immigration history.
The goal is simple: transform every park and facility - and find a way to be more self-funding.