Palo Alto

A Caltrain struck and killed a person at 8:45 this morning (March 4) at the Churchill Avenue crossing in Palo Alto, said police Capt. James Reifschneider. Palo Alto police and […]

Moderates beat out the progressives in the race to become Democratic Party delegates in Marc Berman’s Assembly District 23, according to vote totals released tonight (March 3). The winning slate […]

BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Correspondent A downtown Mountain View bakery and cafe faces an estimated $100,000 in damages after a fire broke out this morning at 8:06 a.m.  The […]

This article appeared in the Feb. 28 edition of the Daily Post. If you want all of the local news first, be sure to pick up a copy every morning. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Facing a potential recall, Palo Alto school board member Shounak Dharap is defending his approach to governing, which was informed by his own […]

Stanford announced Wednesday (Feb. 26) that it’s freezing hiring in anticipation of funding cuts by the federal government. The announcement comes a day after Stanford dropped plans to purchase Notre […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council has voted to bring back a fire engine to the station at Mitchell Park, where neighbors are afraid slow response […]

Stanford Athletic Director Bernard Muir, who oversaw the Cardinal’s move from the Pac-12 to the ACC, is expected to resign from his position before the end of the school year, […]

BY  OLGA R. RODRIGUEZAssociated Press Writer Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of Palo Alto’s Theranos, will remain in prison after losing a bid today (Feb. 24) to overturn her fraud conviction, […]

Palo Alto police said today (Feb. 24) that they are investigating two occurances of a jewelry theft scam on the same day. Police were called by a man in his […]

A 78-year-old Hawaiian man has been convicted of the brutal and long-unsolved murder of a teenage Palo Alto girl more than four decades ago, according to the Santa Clara County […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer A man who robbed a mail carrier with a fake gun in Palo Alto has avoided jail time, court records show. Trevionne Levar Williams, […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer An effort to recall Palo Alto school board member Shounak Dharap has ceased because the campaign didn’t provide verifiable addresses as the law requires, […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer A group of parents is trying to recall Palo Alto school board member Shounak Dharap after votes to eliminate Honors Biology and mandate Ethnic […]

The San Jose branch of the NAACP and the Muwekma Ohlone tribe want Santa Clara County to remove a 63-year-old mural in the Palo Alto Courthouse that they say denigrates […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Fire Chief Geo Blackshire tried to reassure a gathering of residents on Thursday that his department is taking a systemic, data-driven approach […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer A resolution that condemns board member Rowena Chiu’s social media activity following a heated Ethnic Studies debate has sparked a conversation about how Asians […]

Three men who were part of an overnight cleaning crew have been arrested in a series of overnight restaurant burglaries in Palo Alto that netted $16,000, police said today. Police […]

The Palo Alto school board will be asked Tuesday to strip a board member Rowena Chiu of her committee assignments because she reposted a social media comment that allegedly caused […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer After seeing the destruction from the fires in Los Angeles, residents are clamoring for the city of Palo Alto to restore a fire engine […]

A jury has convicted a supervising janitor at the Palo Alto VA Hospital of sexually abusing his coworker, federal prosecutors announced today (Feb. 3). Onofre Salas-Lozano, 42, of Palo Alto, […]

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UPDATE, 2:47 p.m. — The Palo Alto Schools Management Association, a union that represents principals and other administrators in the district, is calling for Chiu to resign for criticizing one […]

A lawsuit filed Tuesday (Jan. 28) claims that three young girls were sexually abused by a school tutor at Palo Alto’s Castilleja all-girls school. Read a copy of the lawsuit […]

BY ELAINE GOODMANDaily Post Correspondent Homelessness issues in Palo Alto are coming to a head, and compassion alone isn’t enough to solve the problem, City Council members say. The comments […]

A man was arrested for allegedly yelling a racial epithet at a woman and chasing her at Palo Alto City Hall Plaza, police said today (Jan. 27).  The woman was […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer At a long and tense meeting, the Palo Alto school board voted tonight (Jan. 23) to keep Ethnic Studies as a graduation requirement to […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer A battle is brewing for the future of the Democratic Party, with two slates of candidates pitted against each other in Assemblyman Marc Berman’s […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school board voted 3-2 tonight (Jan. 21) to eliminate honors biology, instead grouping all freshmen in the same introductory class. Board […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Ethnic Studies is back on the table in Palo Alto after school board members asked to vote on making the controversial class a graduation […]

A head-on crash on Skyline Boulevard near the Thomas Fogarty Winery killed one man, the CHP said. The crash happened on Skyline (SR 35) on Monday at about 5:30 p.m. […]

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A San Jose news website claims that Valley Water CEO Rick Callender is on “voluntary leave” after one of his employees filed a misconduct complaint against him. The website, San […]