Palo Alto

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto City Council filled two vacancies on the Architectural Review Board tonight. Yingxi Chen, a self-employed architect, received votes from six of the seven […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council is moving forward with opening a public gym, despite a donation of up to $35 million from billionaire John […]

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BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The family of an 80-year-old man who was randomly stabbed in Palo Alto’s Crescent Park neighborhood is speaking out against a proposal that […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A donation of up to $35 million to build a public gym in Palo Alto is no longer on the table after the […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A man who was released from jail after hitting someone in the head with a skateboard for no apparent reason in Palo Alto […]

By the Daily Post staff A mylar balloon that became entangled with power lines caused a short circuit that has knocked out power to 4,500 city of Palo alto electric […]

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This story was originally printed Feb. 11 in the Daily Post. To get all of the local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A teachers’ union and the Mountain View Whisman School District are battling over their next labor agreement, and a mediator has been called […]

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Palo Alto City Council will discuss tonight (Feb. 15) how to move forward with redevelopment of Cubberley Community Center, now that the school district […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Councilman Greer Stone is leading a push for the Palo Alto Police Department to stop encrypting its radios, restoring the public’s ability to […]

By the Daily Post staff Update, 8:30 a.m., Friday, Feb. 11 — Police say the man who was shot last night in the parking lot of the Stanford Shopping Center […]

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Palo Alto City Council will focus on crime this year as part of a new “community health and safety” priority for 2022, council members […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto police Agent Nick Enberg, who was handling the dog that bit a man while he was innocently sleeping in his backyard, […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police said they arrested yesterday (Feb. 3) a man at the Starbucks at 376 University Ave. who was pleasuring himself while seated inside […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police are searching for a man who went into the women’s restroom at the Verve Coffee Shop, 162 University Ave., and looked at […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Residents of the Altaire Walk housing complex in south Palo Alto, who say they’re living in fear because they have been “terrorized” by […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police say they have arrested a man on suspicion of breaking the windows of several downtown businesses this morning (Jan. 31), resulting in […]

By the Daily Post staff A man who was part of a group that were shining lights into cars in the 3600 block of South Court in south Palo Alto […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police are searching for a man who committed a lewd act while in the self-checkout line of the Midtown Safeway. On Wednesday (Jan. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council is considering selling 1 million gallons of its daily water allocation, but environmental advocate Peter Drekmeier fears the water rights will […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Residents of a neighborhood plagued by crime have signed a petition calling on the Palo Alto City Council to make crime prevention a […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police are investigating an attempted carjacking yesterday outside Stanford Arboretum Children’s Center at 215 Quarry Road in which a man demanded a car […]

By the Daily Post staff A vandal wrote a racial epithet directed at black people on a sign at El Carmelo Elementary School in Palo Alto, police said. A school […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto businesses under 5,000 square feet won’t have to pay the city’s proposed business tax if City Council sticks with its latest iteration. The […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Billionaire John Arrillaga, one of Silicon Valley’s largest real estate developers who built and donated hundreds of buildings, died today (Jan. 24) at […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police today said they have arrested two men suspected of breaking into eight cars in the California Avenue district who were caught because […]

This story was originally printed in the Daily Post on Jan. 19. If you want to get the local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings at 1,000 […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Ahead of a potential run for sheriff, Robert Jonsen plans to retire after four years as Palo Alto’s police chief, City Manager Ed […]

California Attorney General Rob Bonta today (Jan. 19) announced a civil rights investigation into the office of Santa Clara Sheriff Laurie Smith, who is fighting formal public corruption accusations following […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A man wielding a fake handgun took purses from two women eating lunch outside True Food Kitchen at the Stanford Shopping Center and […]

By the Daily Post staff Chamath Palihapitiya, a Palo Alto venture capitalist and minority owner of the Warriors, is receiving widespread criticism for saying on a podcast that “nobody cares” […]

By the Daily Post staff Eight men robbed a tobacco store in Palo Alto, pistol-whipping the clerk and making off with merchandise and the cash register, police said. The clerk, […]