Palo Alto

The Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto will present the Kiwanis Angel of Service award to legendary Stanford women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer at a dinner on Dec. 11 at the […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer An initial vote count, announced tonight, shows that Keith Reckdahl was elected to Palo Alto City Council by 10 votes over Doria Summa amid […]

“The Last Day of Retrograde,” a dark indie comedy that has a heavy helping of local scenes, has been released on Apple TV and Amazon Prime. Set in Palo Alto […]

It appears likely that first-term Redwood City council member Lissette Espinoza-Garnica won’t be re-elected, though it will be by the slimmest of margins. She appears to be losing to a […]

BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor Six families of children at Woodside and Menlo-Atherton high schools have filed a federal lawsuit that claims teachers and administrators failed to address a rise […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office and the Stanford Department of Public Safety are working on a new agreement that governs how police […]

Caltrain is selling its old diesel trains to the city of Lima, Peru, for $6 million, a Caltrain spokesman said. Lima will use 90 gallery cars and 19 diesel locomotives […]

A woman waiting for a bus at the University Avenue transit station told Palo Alto police that she was sexually assaulted by a man with a knife, who is still […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer An 80-foot apartment building proposed at the Fish Market in Palo Alto is on a fast track to approval and won’t face another public […]

BY AMELIA BISCARDIDaily Post Staff Writer A man who stole an airplane from the Palo Alto Airport and landed it on Half Moon Bay beach pleaded no contest to a […]

Palo Alto residents voting in person at the polls today might not have noticed, but the name of city council candidate Doria Summa was omitted from the screen showing the […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council has voted to extend the city’s Uber-like rideshare service for another six months after getting dozens of emails from residents […]

Voters working through their ballots are faced with 10 propositions. Here’s a quick look at them: Prop 2 — School bonds Borrow $10 billion bond to build, repair and upgrade […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto apologized Friday for waiting to tell residents about Tesla spilling chemicals that ended up in Matadero Creek. Residents were […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding […]

This story was originally posted Wednesday (Oct. 23) at 2:53 p.m. and the Post printed it in Thursday morning’s edition. To get all of the local news first, pick up […]

BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Councilwoman Lydia Kou and Vice Mayor Ed Lauing are proposing new rules for cell nodes installed in Palo Alto by companies like Verizon and […]

The difference between a hate crime and a hate incident is one of the topics that will be discussed Tuesday (Oct. 15) in a discussion sponsored by Palo Alto’s Human […]

Police watching a demonstration at the Stanford Shopping Center saw a woman spray-paint the front windows of the Apple Store, according to a police report. When they went to arrest […]

Read the Housing Authority’s letter to the community. And here is the authority’s letter to residents. The Santa Clara County Housing Authority has put the $57 million redevelopment of the […]

A 46-year-old landlord has been ordered to stand trial for murdering a woman who was renting a room in his East Palo Alto home. John Caisiano Thompson is accused of […]

The city of Palo Alto announced this morning it has reached a tentative agreement with the Palo Alto Unified School District to expand the city’s holdings on the Cubberley campus […]