Palo Alto

This story was first published in the Daily Post on Friday, Oct. 22. To get all of the local news first, pick up the Daily Post in the mornings at […]

By the Daily Post staff An East Palo Alto man has been arrested on suspicion of pleasuring himself in Eleanor Pardee Park in Palo Alto’s Crescent Park neighborhood, police announced […]

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This story first appeared in Saturday’s print edition of the Daily Post. To get all of the local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council approved an $18.9 milllion contract tonight (Oct. 18) to install “smart” meters on homes that would track people’s energy […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor When Palo Alto Police Chief Bob Jonsen encrypted his department’s police radios in January, he said he was following a state Department of […]

Below is the story the Post published on Oct. 4 about a proposal before Palo Alto City Council that night to spend more than $18 million on so-called smart meters […]

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By the Daily Post staff Following a foot chase, officers arrested a man who was hurling anti-gay slurs and fighting with people in downtown Palo Alto, police said. One of […]

Word Count: 720 BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A Palo Alto police officer wrote a scathing retirement letter attacking the department’s leadership for being incompetent and out of […]

Word Count: 437 BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer “Do better,” Supervisor Joe Simitian told Santa Clara County Superior Court officials at a meeting yesterday (Oct. 5) about making […]

By the Daily Post staff CEO Elon Musk said this afternoon that he’s moving Tesla’s headquarters from the Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto to Austin, Texas, where the electric-car […]

By the Daily Post staff An employee of Palo Alto restaurants Rangoon Ruby and Burma Ruby has been charged with embezzling $200,000 and using some of the money to buy […]

By the Daily Post staff The city of Palo Alto has temporarily closed the Cowper/Webster parking structure at 520 Webster St. after an empty car erupted in flames on the […]

Word Count: 549 BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A developer is proposing a housing project that, if approved, would have implications for thousands of properties in Palo Alto […]

Word Count: 390 BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A Palo Alto police officer who slammed a man face first into the ground and broke a bone around his […]

By the Daily Post staff While many restaurants are celebrating new “stars” from the 2021 California Michelin Guide, a Palo Alto chef is pumped that his restaurant was removed from […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted tonight (Sept. 27) to pursue funding for a $37 million homeless shelter with 88 rooms. The shelter would […]

September 24, 2021 Word Count: 439 BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer An elementary school where a student was shot with a BB gun is seeking a restraining order […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A Palo Alto woman, who has been in jail for five years awaiting trial for stabbing her sister-in-law to death, has accepted a […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A 508-unit housing and office development got a thumbs-down from the Palo Alto City Council tonight (Sept. 20), with one councilman saying a […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police are investigating an incident in which a man attempted to take a bicycle from an adult victim near the Stanford West apartments. […]

Word Count: 942 BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent A judge has upheld a Superior Court ruling that orders the city of Palo Alto to refund $12.6 million of excessive […]

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer After only an hour of deliberation, a jury yesterday found 77-year-old John Getreu guilty of the 1974 murder of Janet Ann Taylor along […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A small plane crashed after striking power lines in the marsh outside of the Palo Alto Airport today (Sept. 13). The pilot was […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto may keep University and California avenues closed for longer and allow restaurants to make their outdoor dining setups […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A man shot a child with an air rifle at an elementary school in Palo Alto, police said. The student, who attends Stratford […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A man fired a gun at a park in Palo Alto yesterday (Aug. 31), and then he sped off in his car with […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto City Council is split over whether to require criminal background checks for homeless people who legally sleep in church parking […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto City Council tonight (Aug. 23) voted against building a viaduct to separate the train tracks from the street because they […]