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 […]
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 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 — […]
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 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 the Daily Post staff Longtime Hobee’s co-owner Peter Taber has died at his Los Altos Hills home following a yearlong battle with melanoma. He was 63. His husband and […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Bay Area residents will vote in June on whether to raise tolls by $3 for all Bay bridges in the region, except the […]
UPDATE, 3 P.M.: Congress sped toward reopening the government late Monday as Democrats reluctantly voted to temporarily pay for resumed operations. They relented in return for Republican assurances that the […]
From staff and wire reports Flu deaths have soared among those younger than 65 in the state, including two deaths in San Mateo County and five in Santa Clara County, […]
From staff and wire reports A divided House voted yesterday to prevent a government shutdown after an eleventh-hour deal brought conservatives aboard. But the GOP-written measure faced gloomy prospects in […]
Several events are planned on Monday (Jan. 15) to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2018. • A Day of Service is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at […]
By the Daily Post staff There has been an increase in flu hospitalizations, prompting San Mateo County health officials to urge residents to get a flu shot, even though it’s […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Americans With Disabilities Act lawsuits filed by serial litigators against the Fish Market in San Mateo and the City Pub in Redwood City […]
By the Daily Post staff A pair of earthquakes — one in the East Bay and another in Cupertino — jolted some people out of their sleep this morning. The […]
By the Daily Post staff Congresswoman Jackie Speier said today (Jan. 3) she won’t be running for governor this fall. Speier, D-San Mateo, shot down a rumor that Willie Brown […]
BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s that time of year when newspapers look back at the year’s biggest news stories. But instead of repeating the news you’ve already read, […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Congresswoman Jackie Speier D-San Mateo, is apparently thinking about jumping into the race for governor. The rumor mill regarding Speier’s possible run went […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Residents will be able to buy recreational marijuana under a new state law that takes effect tomorrow (Jan. 1) but if they light […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Most of the city and town councils in the Post’s circulation area have picked their new mayor and vice mayor for 2018, half […]
By the Daily Post staff Some residents in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties want to pay their 2018 property taxes now before the new federal tax bill goes into […]
Palo Alto Congresswoman Anna Eshoo said yesterday (Dec. 19) that nearly 200,000 of her constituents will take a hit with the reduction in the deduction for state and local taxes […]
By the Daily Post staff Those hoping to get pre-Christmas flu shots from CVS on the Peninsula better re-think their plans. Employees at several CVS pharmacies in Palo Alto and […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is pushing to have a new bridge constructed across the Bay, midway between the Bay Bridge and the San […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Peninsula Congresswomen Anna Eshoo and Jackie Speier both called on Detroit Rep. John Conyers yesterday to resign amid revelations that he settled a […]
By the Daily Post staff Peninsula Congresswomen Anna Eshoo and Jackie Speier didn’t return phone calls from the Post yesterday (Nov. 29) to see if they thought fellow Congressional Democrat […]
Above, an umbee cichlid. By the Daily Post staff A concerned postal worker discovered that nearly 40 South American aquarium fish were being sent in a Styrofoam ice chest from […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer City leaders from Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Mountain View are getting ready to fly to a conference in North […]
Above, David Packard, left, Bill Hewlett in a 1964 photograph from HP’s archives. By The Associated Press Wine Country’s deadly wildfires destroyed much of an archive from tech pioneers William […]
By Bay City News. Passengers on a VTA bus in Menlo Park discovered an abandoned python on a seat, an animal welfare official said yesterday. The snake, which has been […]
Above, tech blogger Robert Scoble wears Google Glass at a Dublin, Ireland, web summit on Oct. 31, 2013. AP photo. A Daily Post staff report In the wake of the […]
Above, a San Mateo firefighter fights a blaze in the North Bay. Photo from the San Mateo Fire Department’s Twitter page. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Cities on […]
Above, NASA satellite image showing the massive smoke plumes from the wildfires burning in Wine Country. By the Daily Post and Bay City News The North Bay wildfires are causing […]
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