BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer While a number of elected officials in San Mateo County are technically slated to go before the voters in June, most incumbents are […]
By the Daily Post staff Update, 4:20 p.m., Feb. 28 — Jose Gutierrez, who was wanted for shooting an “AR-style rifle” in his backyard on Saturday, turned himself into Menlo […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer While a number of elected officials in San Mateo County are technically slated to go before the voters in June, most incumbents are […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Menlo Park pastor who sexually abused some of his teenage parishioners pleaded no contest yesterday and is facing up to eight years […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Within 10 years, the number of Facebook employees in Menlo Park will reach 35,000, more than the city’s current population. That prediction came […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A woman’s drug-fueled joyride came to a screeching halt in Palo Alto when a car she’s accused of stealing out of Oakland ran […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer “Digital DNA,” the condemned circuit board egg sculpture in downtown Palo Alto, has another three weeks to seek a new home before the […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Beltramo family, which has been receiving the ire of residents over the closing of the Oasis Beer Garden, won approval last night […]
Students at Gunn High School in Palo Alto and their supporters teamed up with a widely known activist organization to call for national gun law reform at a protest near […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The cost of an employee parking permit in downtown Palo Alto has shot up from $466 per year to $730. The increase was […]
By the Daily Post staff Update, 5 a.m. — Sunnyvale’s Department of Public Safety said via twitter the second suspect in the chase has been captured. Officers are trying to […]
By the Daily Post staff The Beltramo family, landlords of the Oasis Beer Garden, are saddened the restaurant’s owners want to close the beloved burger and pizza joint and are […]
By the Daily Post staff A Boston auction house is selling Steve Jobs memorabilia including this autographed article from the front page of the June 10, 2008, edition of the […]
A firefighter was injured in a house fire Saturday afternoon in Los Altos Hills that caused more than $1 million of damage, Santa Clara County Fire Department officials said. The […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A group of Stanford students has accused the university of using inaccurate numbers to obscure the impacts that a planned 2.3 million-square-foot expansion […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A wealthy Hillsborough real estate scion who is free on $35 million bail after she was charged with murdering the father of her […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Jordan and Terman middle schools in Palo Alto could soon bear the name of a Silicon Valley luminary, the 19th-century “mother of Palo […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The building that houses the Oasis Beer Garden, which is set to close on March 7, turned 100 this year. It was built […]
The woman who died after a head-on collision on Oregon Expressway in Palo Alto on Thursday morning was identified today as a 65-year-old Merced County resident, according to the Santa […]
A woman who died in a crash on Oregon Expressway in Palo Alto early this morning was the passenger and wife of the man driving the vehicle that crossed over […]
By the Daily Post staff After decades in business, the Oasis Beer Garden at 241 El Camino Real in Menlo Park is closing, according to an announcement on the restaurant’s […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A man behind hundreds of Americans with Disabilities lawsuits has filed cases against two more businesses — a gas station in Menlo Park […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Councilman Adrian Fine criticized Mayor Liz Kniss yesterday (Feb. 19) for opposing a pro-housing state Senate bill on behalf of the […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Employees of Redwood City have been getting so many phone calls and questions about marijuana that they created a section on the city’s […]
Clarification: This story has been updated to explain that Councilwoman Lydia Kou referred to the former Los Altos Water Treatment Plant site at the east end of San Antonio Road […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto police are preparing to re-shoot a dramatic new officer recruitment video that’s been slammed as being overly aggressive, macho and militaristic. […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer As the city of Palo Alto continues to bargain quietly with union leaders on its most recent round of employee contract negotiations, four […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The owners of the shuttered College Terrace Market in Palo Alto have been sued by their building’s real estate developer for $460,000 of […]
Evidence suggesting the presence of a mountain lion was found at a private school in Portola Valley, prompting authorities to issue a cautionary message. A deer carcass was found on […]
Published in the Daily Post on Feb. 12, 2018. Follow-up story appears below. BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent A bill introduced in the California Legislature would ease restrictions on […]
In the financially troubled Ravenswood City School District, the superintendent has put her son on the payroll and a board member’s domestic partner was hired to run the preschool, East […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Digging a trench or boring a tunnel for the Caltrain and high-speed rail tracks in Palo Alto would cost billions and would be […]
Originally printed Feb. 9 in the Daily Post. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A silent, solitary life ended in inexplicable violence in downtown Mountain View last November with […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A proposal for 131 townhouses to be built between Redwood Creek and Maple Street in Redwood City will further snarl traffic in the […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View officials have advanced plans to close off Castro Street downtown at the Caltrain tracks and possibly create a pedestrian mall along […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer San Mateo County Judge Gerald Buchwald announced yesterday (Feb. 13) that he will seek re-election in the June election, meaning that one of […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer San Carlos Mayor Bob Grassilli has decided the city will not pay $15,000 for an ethics investigation into councilmen Ron Collins and Mark […]
CORRECTION: The following story on the campaign to recall Judge Aaron Persky included a statement by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell about a letter containing white powder that was sent to […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Redwood City transportation planner and a consultant are proposing four “road diets” — where the number of car lanes on a road […]
By the Daily Post staff Dan Mulholland, a 33-year veteran of the Redwood City Police Department, was named police chief today (Feb. 15) by City Manager Melissa Stevenson Diaz. Mulholland […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A jury today (Feb. 14) found a former Palo Alto elementary school teacher guilty of molesting his ex-girlfriend’s daughter for three years starting […]
6:42 p.m. update — A substance found today in a package sent to the Stanford professor responsible for leading the recall campaign against Judge Aaron Persky has been determined to […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Imagine if you could cloak your identity and anonymously change the policy of a local government? Far fetched? Not in California, where it […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Critics of the movement to oust Judge Aaron Persky from the Santa Clara County Superior Court have raised concerns about the fact that […]
From staff and wire reports Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Poizner, who came within 5,800 votes of representing Palo Alto and the mid-Peninsula in the state Assembly in 2004, has ditched […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Mountain View Tenants Coalition has been hit with a second complaint filed with the state Fair Political Practices Commission, this one alleging […]
By the Daily Post staff 10 p.m. update — A car hit a pedestrian on a scooter and a bicyclist today (Feb. 13) on Embarcadero Road in Palo Alto, sending […]
By the Daily Post staff A county helicopter will spray for mosquitoes Wednesday (Feb. 14) in Palo Alto’s Baylands Nature Preserve. Starting at 7:30 a.m., the county’s Vector Control District […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Billy Ray White, Menlo Park’s first African American mayor, who helped improve the Belle Haven neighborhood by spearheading an effort to revamp low-income […]
By the Daily Post staff For the second time in three days, a Caltrain has hit a car on the tracks. And, once again, a driver is blaming a GPS […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY and EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writers Terri McKinsey, a Palo Alto High School grad, bought the house where she raised her family on Sierra Court — […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The family of a Palo Alto middle-schooler has sued the school district after the boy accidentally shot himself in the eye with a […]
By the Daily Post staff A Caltrain Baby Bullet express train tonight (Feb. 10) hit an unoccupied 1950s-era Austin-Healey convertible at the Fair Oaks Lane crossing in Atherton and dragged […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Several community groups that rented space at the First Baptist Church of Palo Alto have moved out since neighbors’ noise, traffic and parking […]
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto City Council has approved a plan to pull police off of parking enforcement at five Stanford off-campus lots associated with Stanford Hospital. The […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A contested judge race on the June ballot in San Mateo County took an interesting turn yesterday when one of the two candidates […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Ravenswood City School District board voted last night (Feb. 8) to make $5.8 million in cuts to avert a possible state takeover […]
By the Daily Post staff A pedestrian was killed by a car on Old County Road in San Carlos, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. At around 6:30 […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A former Palo Alto elementary school teacher denied in court yesterday (Feb. 6) that he had ever acted inappropriately with his ex-girlfriend’s daughter, […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A transient stabbed to death in downtown Mountain View was finally identified by the Santa Clara County medical examiner’s office yesterday — three […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Here’s a quick perspective on five local stories that have made news in the past week. Local cities rack up hefty surpluses — […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The New York City artist behind “Digital DNA,” the 7-foot-tall, egg-shaped circuit board sculpture at Lytton Plaza, has threatened to sue the city […]
An alleged gang member is facing 60 years in prison after pleading no contest to murder and attempted murder charges stemming from shootings in 2012 and 2013, San Mateo County […]
A water main that broke in San Mateo this morning (Feb. 8) led to traffic congestion, flooding and a school closure, according to police. Firefighters responded to a report of […]
Police are investigating bullet holes that were found Wednesday (Feb. 7) in windows at a bank in Mountain View. The bullet holes were found in the windows of the Wells […]
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors today (Feb. 6) voted to put the recall of Judge Aaron Persky on the June 5 ballot following a public hearing during which […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer You might not expect to turn on your TV and see your fire chief featured in a PG&E commercial. But residents of East […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A new project proposed to take up five blocks along Main Street and El Camino in Redwood City would result in substantially more […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A volunteer at a Chinese after-school program in Mountain View has been arrested after two elementary school students said he had touched them […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer In order to avoid a financial crisis, Ravenswood City School District officials said yesterday they are proposing to cut at least 83 positions […]
Police arrested four people after they allegedly led San Mateo police officers on a chase this evening (Feb. 5) following a robbery at the Bridgepointe Shopping Center, according to a […]
A Mountain View police motorcycle officer was injured in a collision with a car on the Central Expressway this afternoon, a police spokeswoman confirmed. The officer was taken to a […]
A 13-year-old boy suffered little to no injuries after being hit by a car when he was riding his bike to school this morning in Los Altos Hills, a Santa […]
By the Daily Post staff Two girls from Gunn High School are the winners of the Palo Alto Rotary Clubs student speech contest. The two Rotary Clubs in Palo Alto […]
A Humboldt County woman who was reported as missing by her mother was actually competing on “The Bachelor.” Rebekah Martinez’s mother could not reach her 22-year-old daughter for six days, […]
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police received two reports of dog-size mountain lions last night (Feb. 3) — one in the Midtown neighborhood and another not far from […]
LAST IN A TWO-PART SERIES BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Two decades after a flood forced 500 residents to evacuate their homes in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto […]
UNDER WATER — Residents of an East Palo Alto apartment complex succeed in pulling this car out of a flooded carport in the 1998 flood. The image is from a […]
By the Daily Post staff Feb. 3, 1998 — Fierce rains and high tides combined to make San Francisquito Creek overflow its banks at 1 a.m., inundating houses, cars and […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer San Mateo County Supervisor Dave Pine and Redwood City Councilwoman Shelly Masur, both Democrats, told the Post yesterday they are considering bids for […]
By the Daily Post staff A man who was denied a permit by Menlo Park to protest outside the offices of a Silicon Valley tech executive on Sand Hill Road […]
By Bay City News Serivce A former high school teacher was sentenced today to two years in jail after pleading no contest to charges he had intercourse with a former […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school board decided Tuesday (Jan. 30) to urge Santa Clara County to require Stanford to set aside land for a […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer San Mateo County Supervisor Warren Slocum is on a mission to remind the rest of the Bay Area that the Dumbarton Rail Bridge […]
By The Associated Press A statue of Hungarian-born U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in the U.S. Congress, was unveiled Thursday (Feb. 1) in Budapest […]
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto schools interim Superintendent Karen Hendricks said today (Feb. 1) that the decision to remove actor James Franco’s mural at Palo Alto High School […]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post correspondent When the city of East Palo Alto posted an $18.8 million budget surplus for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, the city finance […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A massive development of homes, stores and offices spanning five blocks has been proposed to Redwood City by Greystar Real Estate. The project […]
A signed statement attributed to adult film star Stormy Daniels denied she ever had an affair with President Trump, but she said she didn’t know where it came from while […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto High School administrators have suddenly painted over a mural by one of the school’s most famous alumni, actor and filmmaker James […]
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