Palo Alto

By the Daily Post staff A fire broke out at 11:10 p.m. Wednesday in Palo Alto’s Midtown neighborhood shopping center that includes Bill’s Cafe, Philz Coffee and Palo Alto Fine […]

By the Daily Post staff Walt Hays, a pillar in Palo Alto who pushed the city to make sustainability a priority, has died. He was 87. Hays was a civil […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Police are investigating two strong-arm robberies in downtown Palo Alto. The first was at the train station on Saturday around 3:30 p.m. A […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto has agreed on new labor contracts with its firefighters and SEIU Local 521 that gives them 8% raises […]

Correction: This story has been revised to say that Scheetz’s car was T-boned by another driver, according to the victim’s father. By the Daily Post staff A Palo Alto teenager […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer New Palo Alto Mayor Lydia Kou is taking center stage in the council chambers with a list of priorities, and not all of […]

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent A candidate in the 2018 race for Palo Alto Unified school board has lost his appeal in a case in which he accused a […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT  Daily Post Staff Writer  In an update to City Council about recent storms, City Manager Ed Shikada touted the city’s online presence, and one council member said […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (Jan. 9) picked Lydia Kou as mayor and Greer Stone as vice mayor for 2023. Kou’s appointment was […]

Mayor is shown first, followed by vice mayor. An asterisk (*) denotes a year in which the previous year’s vice mayor became mayor. Before 1982, mayoral terms ran from July […]

Sunday, 10 a.m. — Power has been partially restored to some residents in Palo Alto this morning, with more expected to be restored by noon. Power was restored to some […]

By the Daily Post staff A man opened the door of a woman’s car and grabbed her purse from the passenger’s seat of her car parked near Greer Park while […]

By the Daily Post staff 11:05 p.m. Power is out to about 2,000 Palo Alto residents at this hour. High winds have downed trees that have brought power lines along […]

By the Daily Post staff The National Weather Service says Palo Alto will be under a flood watch on Wednesday (Jan. 4) and Thursday, when there’s a 100% chance of […]

By the Daily Post staff • Creek flood monitors fail; • Palo Alto runs out of sandbags; • Water flow on San Francisquito Creek exceeds 1998 flood UPDATE, 5:47 p.m. […]

By the Daily Post staff 9 p.m. — The number of Palo Alto electric customers without power continued to dwindle into the night. Crews restored power to most customers in […]

A 28-year-old man was arrested on Christmas night after he stole a car in downtown Mountain View that had two children inside, police said. A woman called Mountain View police […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted tonight to build a fiber internet network that would compete with Comcast and AT&T. The city will do the […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council agreed tonight (Dec. 19) to extend a contract with a company that has been underpaying janitors for more than four […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council welcomed a suggestion tonight (Dec. 12) to update and enforce the city’s ban on short-term rentals. A ban against […]

The former CEO of failed cryptocurrency firm FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, was arrested today (Dec. 12) in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government, U.S. and Bahamian authorities said. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto is planning how to use space at City Hall that will open up once police and fire administration […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A customer at the Apple Store in downtown Palo Alto recorded a Black Friday heist by two men, and the video shows the […]

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By the Daily Post staff Police arrested a suspect today (Nov. 22) in a drive-by shooting of Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse at the Stanford Shopping Center. Zachary Michael Ginsberg, 32, of […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer A man fired a gun into the front window of Fleming’s Steakhouse at the Stanford Shopping Center this afternoon (Nov. 21), and about 20 […]

A federal judge today (Nov. 18) sentenced Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes to 11 years and three months in prison, citing the need for investors in Silicon Valley startups […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer An entrepreneur who built one of the world’s top cryptocurrency companies and then saw it all come crashing down almost overnight was raised […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Police Department’s officer-therapist team is no longer operating because the therapist left the job, Chief Andrew Binder said tonight (Nov. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Police Department is finally taking it seriously when officers use profanity, independent police auditor Mike Gennaco told council tonight (Nov. […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police say they have arrested a man who allegedly broke into a home and then took off running when he discovered somebody inside, […]