Opinion
Opinion: Police aren’t required to encrypt their radios
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The dispute over the decision by Palo Alto, Mountain View and Los Altos to encrypt their police radio frequencies may just boil down […]
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Belmont
Bank robbery suspect arrested
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The efforts of several police departments have led to the arrest of a man suspected of robbing a bank in Belmont, police said […]
Palo Alto
San Mateo County cops want Covid shots
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The San Mateo County Police Chiefs and Sheriff Association is asking the county’s public health department to step up its Covid vaccinations of […]
Los Altos
Trash containers set ablaze in Los Altos
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer One ore more arsonists set fire to a wooden dumpster and three trash cans on two different days at two separate locations in […]
Stanford
George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state, dead at 100
Former Secretary of State George Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union […]
Santa Clara County
County contends U.S. Supreme Court ruling doesn’t stop their ban on church services
From staff and wire reports The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that California can’t bar indoor church services because of the pandemic, but Santa Clara County officials say the ruling […]
Opinion
Opinion: Reopening schools isn’t as easy as it might sound
This was originally published on Jan. 25 in the Daily Post. BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Last week I wrote about the irony that scientists could produce a Covid […]
Stanford
FEMA gives Stanford $16.8 million to distribute vaccines
By the Daily Post staff Stanford Health Care will get $16.8 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to distribute vaccines at six locations in the Bay Area, FEMA announced […]
Santa Clara County
Levi’s Stadium to become a mass vaccination site
The largest Covid vaccination site in the state will open next week at the 49ers Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, officials said today. The move is ironic in that the […]
Santa Clara County
County will now vaccinate anyone over 65 regardless of their health care provider
By the Daily Post staff Santa Clara County announced this morning that anybody over 65 can get a Covid vaccination through the county regardless of their health care provider or […]
Santa Clara County
Residents tell Simitian they’re frustrated over the slow rollout of vaccines
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Seven weeks after the FDA granted emergency authorization to the first Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S., Santa Clara County residents are growing increasingly anxious […]
Palo Alto
State pulls liquor license of Ernie’s Liquors
This story was originally published in this morning’s print edition of the Daily Post. To get all of the local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings at […]
Opinion
Opinion: County shouldn’t keep Covid death statistics a secret
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor San Mateo County’s leaders have made little progress in stemming the spread of Covid-19 in East Palo Alto and North Fair Oaks, with […]
Santa Clara County
Man accused of ramming pedestrians to appear in court
By the Daily Post staff An Iraq War veteran who is accused of deliberately driving into a group of pedestrians in Sunnyvale because he thought they were Muslim will appear […]
Palo Alto
Council approves new police station
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (Feb. 1) voted to start construction of a $118 million police building, although Vice Mayor Pat Burt and […]
Menlo Park
City’s non-emergency phone lines are shut down Tuesday night
By the Daily Post staff For the next two Tuesdays, the Menlo Park Police Department’s non-emergency lines won’t be operating, the city announced today (Feb. 1). The outage starts tomorrow […]
San Mateo County
Three guilty pleas in unemployment benefits fraud at county jail
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Three of the 21 people who are charged in being a part of an unemployment-benefits ring based out of Maguire Jail in Redwood […]
Palo Alto
Councilwoman says colleagues blew it when they passed fee schedule for Foothills Park
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Councilwoman Alison Cormack said tonight that City Council “overreacted and over-corrected” while rushing to pass an emergency ordinance that implemented $6 […]
Opinion
Opinion: City should postpone construction of police station
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor This doesn’t make sense. A few months ago, the Palo Alto city budget was so tight that the Fire Department was forced to […]
San Mateo County
Woman killed in Highway 101 accident
By the Daily Post staff A 34-year-old woman was killed on Highway 101 in a rollover accident in the middle of the night, the CHP reported. The woman, who is […]