BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View City Council decided last night (June 9) to close four blocks of Castro Street to cars to let restaurants serve customers […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos Councilwoman Jeannie Bruins apologized on Thursday for making a racist comment at a public meeting. The council convened over the telephone […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer A state agency is looking into whether Los Altos Mayor Jan Pepper would have a conflict of interest if she votes on a […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer The Los Altos City Council has rejected a last-minute proposal by City Manager Chris Jordan to require people to wear masks in public […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos will give $5,000 grants to small businesses using a lottery system. City Manager Chris Jordan will give council an update on […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Manager Chris Jordan has suggested a salary freeze for upper-level management next year but his salary is not included in […]
By the Daily Post staff Los Altos police announced this afternoon that they’ve made an arrest in last Monday’s murder of mason Roberto Mario Rivera in the backyard of a […]
FRIDAY, 5:30 p.m. — Police corrected the spelling of the name of the victim of Monday’s shooting on Highlands Circle. He’s Roberto Rivera, 48, of Union City. Police said he […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Economists say a severe recession will result from the coronavirus shutdown, but that’s not stopping Los Altos City Manager Chris Jordan from proposing […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer A judge has ruled against Los Altos in a suit brought against the city by disgruntled developers and development advocates. Developers Ted and […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Bullis Charter School might have to stay in its current place at the Egan Junior High and Blach Intermediate School campuses for another […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer In the past year, Los Altos city employees and elected officials have been told not to speak to the media on certain subjects. […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos spends $5,000 per city council meeting at the youth center to rent audio equipment and the foot-tall stage on which the […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Los Altos wants to buy Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District’s office at 330 Distel Circle. The district is looking to […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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By the Daily Post staff Traffic came to a standstill on Foothill Expressway during the afternoon rush hour yesterday (Oct. 17), and thousands of residents lost power, when a car […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer There’s nothing wrong with the air in Los Altos City Hall Council Chambers, according to an air quality test the city ordered. The […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s been a strange few months at Los Altos City Hall, and I’m sure residents are scratching their heads, trying to figure out […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Manager Chris Jordan, who has ignited controversy for ignoring a 4-1 council directive, was paid $141,652 to leave his last […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Manager Chris Jordan, who disregarded a 4-1 council decision, has a history of clashing with the council members to whom […]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent A developer is suing the city of Los Altos after the City Council rejected a proposal to build two single-family homes in the Montebello […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Scott Chan of Los Altos and his adult daughter, Kendra Chan, went on snorkeling trips near the Channel Islands off the coast of […]
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer A dispute over Councilwoman Jeannie Bruins’ asthma has cost Los Altos $50,000 and spurred the city manager to override a council majority vote. […]
From staff and wire reports A jury has found an aspiring actor who prosecutors called “The Boy Next Door Killer” guilty of fatally stabbing two Los Angeles-area women, including a […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Los Altos police officer who was investigating a drug related crime was taken to a hospital yesterday (Monday, Aug. 12) after being […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos became the first city in the mid-Peninsula to largely ban small cell antennas, or “nodes” in residential neighborhoods, but not all […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Council tonight (Aug. 5) will vote an ordinance that nearly bans small cell antennas, or “nodes,” in residential neighborhoods. Cellphone […]
By the Daily Post staff A sharp-eyed neighbor helped Los Altos police catch two suspected home burglars, authorities said. The neighbor saw two people exiting a home on the 500 […]
This story first appeared in Friday’s print edition of the Daily Post. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Los Altos City Council will meet behind closed doors on […]
A Los Altos woman was killed in a suspected DUI crash in Paso Robles in San Luis Obispo County on Saturday, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash happened […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos Councilwoman Jeannie Bruins said she thinks other council members are being “naive” when they say the city should hire its own […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Los Altos man said Monday (July 8) he was shocked to get a letter from AT&T telling him that the company planned […]
By the Daily Post staff A number of Los Altos city employees were told not to say anything to the public or news media when Los Altos Planning Commission Chairman […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Some Los Altos City Council members obviously aren’t happy with their current council chambers. Six months after deciding to spend $1.2 million to […]
By the Daily Post staff Los Altos residents have voted down a $1.1 million storm drain fee that city officials said was a critical need, and critics said was unnecessary […]
By the Daily Post staff A fire struck a two-story home in Los Altos in the pre-dawn hours this morning (May 29) but both people inside got out safely. At […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A Los Altos man has been outfitted with an ankle monitor after pleading no contest to stalking and threatening to rape and murder […]
Correction: This meeting begins tonight at 7, not 6. The closed session of the board starts at 6. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A new office building for […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer After an outcry from parents in the Los Altos School District, the school board has decided to postpone voting on a proposal to […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Despite a number of protests from residents, Los Altos City Council decided Tuesday (April 23) to hold a mail-in vote about whether to […]
This story was first printed in Friday’s Daily Post. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Unable to survive profitably in the face of high rents and competition from Amazon, […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A long-contested development panned by Los Altos residents as “horrendous” and an “atrocity” hit another speed bump last night, with City Council rejecting […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Bullis Charter School announced yesterday that it would not expand into the Mountain View Whisman School District this fall as planned, claiming that […]
A Los Altos man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography, police said today (March 5). Police said they received reports about the suspect, Jeffrey Rowland, in January […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A person walking home near downtown Los Altos was robbed at gunpoint by two people in a car, police said today (Feb. 25). […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A bizarre situation at Los Altos City Council has pitted Councilwoman Jeannie Bruins’ asthma against the cigarette habit of one of her political […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos Planning Commission Chair Alex Samek has attended just one meeting since he was arrested zooming down Highway 101 while allegedly passed […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Mark Goodman wept with relief after convincing the Los Altos City Council to drop the idea of installing stop signs with constantly flashing […]
By the Daily Post staff Santa Clara County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a man suspected of spreading white powder and hydrogen peroxide on a VTA bus and tampering with food […]
Fire officials are investigating the cause of a fire that damaged the upper portion of a home in Los Altos early this morning (Jan. 21). The blaze was first reported […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor With the new year and two new City Council members in Los Altos, here’s an opportunity to get off on the right step. […]
By the Daily Post staff FBI agents served a federal search warrant at a lice removal salon in Los Altos Wednesday (Dec. 5) morning, but declined to say what the […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Los Altos school district will pay $225,000 to the family of a 10-year-old girl who sued for $5 million after she was […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer This sounds like a question from a bad cop show: What were the members of the Los Altos City Council, City Manager Chris […]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent The good economic times continue to roll for the city of Mountain View, which posted a $99.5 million surplus for the fiscal year that […]
By the Daily Post staff Mountain View-Los Altos school district Superintendent Jeff Harding will retire June 30 after four years in the district, school officials said yesterday. Harding has been […]
Editor’s note: At the end are the comments of candidate Jim Davis, who wasn’t able to respond before the Post’s deadline for the printed version of this story on Thursday. […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Lawyers for the Los Altos School District are trying to settle a $5 million lawsuit filed by the parents of a 10-year-old girl […]
Video from a surveillance camera of the sign theft. Courtesy of the Los Altos Police Department. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Los Altos police yesterday released […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Attorneys for the Los Altos School District want to banish the terms “sexual assault,” “sexual attack” and “attack” from the courtroom as jurors […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Four candidates are running for three open seats on the Mountain View Los Altos high school board next month — including a former […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The battle over Bullis Charter School rages on in the Los Altos School District, where two newcomers are challenging two incumbents next month […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Four newcomers are challenging Los Altos Mayor Jean Mordo for two open seats on City Council — with controversial plans to develop the […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A $5 million lawsuit against the Los Altos School District over the alleged sex assault of a 10-year-old girl is headed to trial […]
DAILY POST EDITORIAL Measure C in Los Altos was initially promoted as a measure that would stop the sale of city parks without a vote of the people. The group […]
BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Critic “The Legend of Georgia McBride” is a strange play. In part, it is a tutorial for straight men on how to become […]
By the Daily Post staff The five candidates vying for two seats on the Los Altos City Council will take questions from the public and the press on Monday (Sept. […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Leaders of a Los Altos charter school that has used wealthy parents’ donations to supplement public funds say they wouldn’t ask for money […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Council voted unanimously last night (Aug. 28) to move forward with a nonbinding “vision” plan that would transform downtown by […]
Editor’s note: The version of this story printed in today’s Post gave the wrong date for the hearing. The hearing is actually Tuesday, Aug. 28, at 7 p.m., at City […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I was surprised to learn that Los Altos City Manager Chris Jordan decided on his own, without a public hearing or a vote […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Los Altos’ new policy of giving most employees every other Friday off never went before City Council, City Manager Chris […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A citizens initiative to keep the city of Los Altos from selling city land without voter approval will not face a competing measure […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Burglars kicked in the doors of three nearby homes in Los Altos in a single day, weeks after two other unsolved home burglaries […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A liquor store in Mountain View and a futon shop in Los Altos have joined a list of El Camino Real businesses sued […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Monday (June 16) marks the opening of the candidate filng period for the Nov. 6 election. Below is a breakdown of who is, […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The battle over public land is heating up in Los Altos, where City Council has moved ahead with a ballot measure to compete […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Four mid-Peninsula cities — Palo Alto, San Carlos, Los Altos and Belmont — are planning to ask residents to raise hotel taxes in […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Now that 2,900 Los Altos voters have signed a petition for a ballot measure to prevent the City Council from selling public land […]
This story was originally printed in Monday’s Daily Post. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Mountain View-Los Altos High School District has settled for $80,000 with a former […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Council on Tuesday (June 12) will consider countering a citizens initiative to keep the city from selling public land without […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Los Altos School District has been hit with lawsuits from parents who say their 6-year-old daughter was sexually assaulted by two of […]
Eight Boy Scouts from Troop 30 of Los Altos have achieved their Eagle rank. Their promotion to Eagle rank on May 20 followed years of work on leadership, community service […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Four mid-Peninsula school districts will ask voters for money in the June 5 primary. Three of the districts — Ravenswood, Las Lomitas and […]
DAILY POST EDITORIAL The Mountain View-Los Altos High School District is asking voters in the June 5 primary to support a $295 million bond issue to build new classrooms and […]
By the Daily Post staff A group of Los Altos residents have collected more than the necessary number of signatures to put an item on the November ballot that would […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A group of Los Altos residents are preparing to collect signatures for a November ballot measure that would stop the city from selling […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos banned smoking in most public places after police received five complaints in the last six months, according to data obtained by […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A man has filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Altos, alleging retaliation by three employees over a home renovation permitting dispute, […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer At a single meeting, Los Altos both cracked down on smoking in public and considered changing its tune on allowing cannabis businesses in […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Los Altos School District’s plans to buy a new school site in Mountain View — possibly through eminent domain from unwilling owners […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A former councilman from Los Altos Hills voiced concerns about the newly elected mayor of Los Altos yesterday (Dec. 13) after reading the […]
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