Sue Dremann is a veteran journalist who joined the Palo Alto Weekly in 2001. She is an award-winning breaking news and general assignment reporter who also covers the regional environmental, health and crime beats.
She has covered plane crashes, murders, police shootings and other breaking news stories. Sue has written about the Bay Area's dwindling water supply,drought,wildfires and COVID-19.
The end of federal abortion rights could inspire groups that seek to protect embryos to urge greater limits on in vitro fertilization and embryonic stem cell research, Stanford law professor Hank Greely said.
[Friday, July 1, 2022]
Another probable case of monkeypox has been found in a county resident, the county Public Health Department said Thursday. The case is not connected to a previous case announced on June 23.
[Friday, July 1, 2022]
A couple who pleaded guilty to charges for securing their daughters' admission to college by paying to cheat on entrance exams and creating false athlete profiles in a national scandal was sentenced in Boston federal court.
[Wednesday, June 29, 2022]
A project to protect and restore more than 500 acres of critical shore area habitats in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park received a $1 million grant from the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority.
[Tuesday, June 28, 2022]
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the court's Roe v. Wade decision granting women the federal right to an abortion in the United States on Friday. The decision sends authority to regulate abortion back to the states.
[Friday, June 24, 2022]
A suspected case of monkeypox virus is under investigation in Santa Clara County, the Public Health Department said in a statement on Thursday.
[Thursday, June 23, 2022]
A power failure caused by damage to transmission equipment from the Edgewood Fire in San Mateo County caused Stanford University to cancel classes last week, according to the university.
[Wednesday, June 22, 2022]
Two boys were arrested on Thursday for the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy in East Palo Alto on June 13. A semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine was found at one of the homes.
[Monday, June 20, 2022]
COVID-19 vaccinations for children ages 6 months to 5 years old could be available locally as soon as Tuesday, pending final approval by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[Friday, June 17, 2022]
COVID-19 vaccinations for children ages 6 months to 5 years old could be available as soon as Tuesday, pending final approval by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Santa Clara County Public Health leaders said on Friday.
[Friday, June 17, 2022]