OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s becoming evident that Palo Alto officials won’t be able to make a good decision on the future of the rail crossings by […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The man who produced more than 50 Peanuts specials including “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and wrote the lyrics to the song “Christmastime is […]
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View officials are taking a risk in potentially turning Castro Street into a pedestrian mall, because some cities have found that the […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park City Council unanimously banned e-cigarettes last night (Dec. 17) and then Councilman Ray Mueller proposed something that may be unprecedented. Mueller […]
October 6, 1924 – November 23, 2019 Dr. Bert G. Hickman, Stanford University Professor Emeritus of Economics, loving husband, father and grandfather, passed away peacefully surrounded by family in Palo […]
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BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Menlo Park’s ban of natural gas in new homes for heating, hot water and clothes dryers has received the green light from a state […]
Opinion BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Alto City Attorney Molly Stump will ask City Council tonight (Dec. 16) to vote on a dreadful proposal to reduce public oversight […]
By the Daily Post staff A man accused of being an accomplice to Hillsborough real estate heiress Tiffany Li will not face further charges relating to the murder of Li’s […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer The former assistant director of admissions at Stanford who allegedly stabbed his girlfriend while on LSD is out on bail and a prosecutor […]
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported San Mateo County Community College District board member Dave Mandelkern’s vote on Nov. 20 on personnel changes in the district. He […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto police yesterday (Dec. 11) arrested a man who is suspected of stabbing a co-worker at a tech company off Page Mill […]
BY JEN NOWELL Daily Post Correspondent One floor less makes all the difference as the Mountain View City Council allows a seven-story office building on a site that includes the […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor One of the scariest things drivers face are bicyclists who don’t stop at stop signs or stop lights. Nobody wants to hit a […]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent As wireless companies look to install more small cell antennas or “nodes” to improve wireless service, the Palo Alto City Council next week will […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer The editors of a Palo Alto High School student publication say a teacher and assistant principal tried to block reporters from covering a […]
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BY JAMIE MORROW Daily Post Associate Editor “Silicon Valley” didn’t go out with a bang. Instead, it wrapped everything up like a present. Loose ends were tied up, an ending […]
August 8, 1939 – December 2, 2019 On Monday, December 2nd, 2019, Ellis Joseph Alden, loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, and uncle, passed away at the age of 80 following […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer A woman who says her partner killed himself after conflicts with his boss at Stanford is now worried she and her three young […]
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer Ravenswood City School District last night (Dec. 5) unveiled its plan to close Brentwood Academy and Willow Oaks schools next fall, a plan […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Altans have reason to be concerned about a series of cases accusing the city’s police officers. • On Nov. 18, City Council […]
Jason Matthew Exmeyer passed away on November 21, 2019, at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, CA aft er a courageous battle with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) at 40 years of […]
Resident of Palo Alto October 28, 1925 – November 24, 2019 Mark A. O’Leary, who lived in and around Palo Alto for over 70 years, passed away peacefully at Stanford […]
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A Stanford law professor who was called to testify at Wednesday ’s (Dec. 4) House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the impeachment of President Trump created a controversy when she made […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The East Palo Alto City Council has put off approving a seven-story office building at Donohoe Street and University Avenue, behind the Chevron, […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A San Carlos family is conducting a search one would typically see on “Sesame Street” — they’re looking for the letter Y. Not […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council is holding off on a request from local hotels to withdraw from the San Mateo County/Silicon Valley Convention and […]
A 24-hour center for victims of rape and sexual assault, which will include rape crisis advocates and a Sexual Assault Forensic Exam Team, is scheduled to open in February at […]
The co-founders of Google announced today they’re stepping down as executives of its parent company, Alphabet, ending a remarkable two decades during which Larry Page and Sergey Brin shaped a […]
By the Daily Post staff Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne said today (Dec. 3) that an outside review has found no additional evidence of fraud in athletics admissions at Stanford in […]
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BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer An ordinance to stop unjust evictions and rent hikes in Palo Alto will go into effect a week later than planned because Councilman […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Tonight (Dec. 3) the East Palo Alto City Council will decide whether to approve a seven-story building at Donohoe Street and University Avenue, […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Thieves used a stolen truck to smash the front window of a jewelry store on Main Street in Los Altos so they could […]
By the Daily Post staff A local author with 25 published books is offering a free talk on Wednesday about what you need to know in order to get your […]
BY JAMIE MORROW Daily Post Associate Editor Machine learning and artificial intelligence are the hottest areas of tech right now, and there are whole institutes, publications and forums devoted to […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The city of San Carlos is boasting an $8.8 million surplus after officials predicted that the city would have a $2 million deficit. […]
A Menlo Park man was arrested on suspicion of DUI after flipping a car on a ramp between Woodside Road and Highway 101 in Redwood City, according to the California […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Police Department’s Tom DeStefano, who was just named in a $3.8 million police brutality claim, was one of the officers […]
BY JEN NOWELL Daily Post Correspondent Caltrain’s Board of Directors is considering the idea of shaking things up at the transit agency, including changing up who picks the CEO, as […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A proposed biotech campus in east San Carlos will be the mid-Peninsula’s third largest project seeking approval and would double the city’s work […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer During a luncheon with the Palo Alto Rotary Club, state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, equated Facebook to a strip mining company. Hill […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto just settled a $572,500 police brutality claim, and now it is facing another one. Julio Arevalo has filed a claim for […]
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BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer The board of trustees of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District voted unanimously last night (Nov. 25) to put two tax questions to […]
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OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’m disappointed that four city councils in our area have decided to place restrictions on natural gas rather than allowing consumers to decide […]
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Firefighters have rescued a young seal who was found in a Redwood City parking garage. The five-month-old northern fur seal, now named “Santos,” was found Sunday morning in the Marshall […]
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police have arrested a couple who allegedly drove around downtown looking for cars to break into while two children, ages 2 and 3, […]
Jan Didriksen, age 84 from Portola Valley, passed away peacefully while surrounded by her family on October 23rd in Palo Alto. She is survived by her husband of 49 years, […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Former Palo Alto police Sgt. Wayne Benitez, who slammed a Buena Vista Mobile Home Park resident on the hood of a car and […]
BY JAMIE MORROW Daily Post Associate Editor Last night’s episode of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” took aim at an easy target — big tech’s enthusiastic embrace of toothless ethical platitudes. But […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Stanford has bought a 175-apartment complex at Franklin and Monroe streets in Redwood City from Greystar Development to serve as housing for employees […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A man who lives in the unincorporated San Mateo County community of North Fair Oaks has been sentenced to six months in jail […]
By the Daily Post staff San Mateo’s city manager announced today he has picked Ed Barberini — San Bruno’s police chief and a longtime veteran of the San Mateo County […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer The Foothill-DeAnza Community College District board, which is seeing its enrollment drop, is scheduled to decide Monday whether to put a $900 million […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Lyft is testing autonomous cars in East Palo Alto, at the former Catalytica chemical manufacturing plant near Cooley Landing. The testing facility at […]
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OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The controversy over why Los Altos residents can’t watch their City Council meetings on TV just gets weirder by the day. I’d say […]
Resident of Los Altos November 8, 1927 – November 14, 2019 Harold F (Hal) Schoenborn, age 92, passed away peacefully among family on Thursday, November 14, 2019. Formerly of Hebron, […]
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BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Add Los Altos to the list of local cities that plan to ban natural gas in new homes and businesses. City Council split […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A member of the San Mateo County Community College District board agreed last night with a dozen students, teachers and residents in saying […]
By the Daily Post staff The city of Palo Alto has agreed to pay $572,500 to a Buena Vista Mobile Home Park resident who was beaten by a Palo Alto […]
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BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer More than 550 people have donated $64,000 to the family of a Palo Alto Utilities lineman who was electrocuted. Donatus Okhomina, 42, an […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Maximart Pharmacy at 240 Cambridge Ave. is shutting its doors tomorrow after four decades of filling the prescriptions of Palo Altans. Jack Morton, […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The San Mateo County Community College District Board on Wednesday (Nov. 20) will hear from students and teachers at Canada College who are […]
BY JAMIE MORROW Daily Post Associate Editor In last night’s episode of HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” plot took a backseat while power plays took the stage. Weird, awkward power plays among […]
HP Inc. said today (Nov. 17) its board rejected a $33.5 billion takeover offer from Xerox. The Palo Alto-based company said that the cash and stock deal undervalues its business […]
The Palo Alto Utilities employee who was electrocuted yesterday has been identified as Donatus Okhomina, a father of four, Air Force veteran and seasoned electrical lineman. Okhomina, 42, of Dixon, […]
Stanford Health Care opened the doors to its new Stanford Hospital today (Nov. 17) and moved around 200 patients to the new facility across the skybridge that connects the new […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The sewage processing agency that paid its former general manager $875,000 to leave his job without suing has now received two bids for […]
By the Daily Post staff A Palo Alto Utilities Department lineman was killed this morning (Nov. 16) while working on an electrical transformer at 670 E. Meadow Drive near Middlefield […]
A jury today (Nov. 15) found a Hillsborough real estate heiress innocent of killing the father of her two children in 2016 in an alleged conspiracy with her boyfriend. Tiffany […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Even though rumors and websites such as Yelp claim that Flegels in downtown Menlo Park has closed, Manager Brian Flegel says the long-standing […]
November 9, 1927 – November 7, 2019 Barbara Jean Jensen passed away peacefully in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, just two days before her 92nd birthday. Barbara was […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer San Carlos City Council has passed a law requiring landlords to only evict tenants for “just cause,” and it took a step toward […]
By EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The attorneys for Tiffany Li and her boyfriend Kaveh Bayat asked for a new trial yesterday (Nov. 23), saying that jurors in the […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Council last night suspended the contract of a disability consultant after she told council that they can’t move back to […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Parks and Recreation Commission last night (Nov. 12) recommended that City Council should ease up on the rule that only […]
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto’s Public Works Department has paused a plan to remove 16 trees and prune 100 more on a half-mile bike path behind Fletcher Middle […]
By the Daily Post staff TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has chosen Tim Bond to be its new artistic director, the Palo Alto-based company announced Tuesday (Nov. 12). Bond, known for staging […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer After nine days of deliberating, the jurors in the Tiffany Li murder case have still not landed on a verdict for the Hillsborough […]
October 11, 1925 – November 1, 2019 Charles Everson passed away November 1 in Palo Alto, California. He had just turned 94 years old on October 11 and was celebrated […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos will start broadcasting City Council meetings on cable television tonight, following months of complaints about a blackout from residents. Council meetings […]
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July 4, 1932 – October 27, 2019 With deeply felt sadness we announce the peaceful passing of Betty Jeanne Cooley, our family’s matriarch, at home on October 27, 2019. Though […]
By the Daily Post staff The Daily Post has won 15 awards from the San Francisco Press Club including first-place honors for investigative reporting, news series, feature story, entertainment review […]
BY JAMIE MORROW Daily Post Associate Editor The writers of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” love nothing more than to skewer the idea that companies here want to make the world a […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Menlo Park man is suing the government agency tasked with reducing the possibility of flooding along the San Francisquito Creek, saying that […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Redwood City babysitter has been sentenced to nine years in prison for touching two boys inappropriately and sending 14 others inappropriate messages, […]
By the Daily Post staff A Chevy pickup hauling a trailer went off the road and rolled onto its side on Friday (Nov. 8) in Mountain View. The truck was […]
By the Daily Post staff Los Altos police say they’ve arrested two teenage boys on suspicion of robbing and carjacking a couple in their 60s while they were parking in […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council members are trying to pass an emergency ordinance to deal with the unintended consequences of a new state law […]
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