Palo Alto

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Two crews of retail thieves — one saying they are Romanian and the other carrying Chilean IDs — have been arrested after stealing […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police today (June 9) said they were looking for additional victims of a local doctor who was arrested in December on suspicion of […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted tonight (June 6) to nearly triple the number of trees that can’t be removed by property owners. The city […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (June 6) approved Castilleja School’s permit to renovate its campus, build an underground garage and enroll more students. It […]

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Computer chip and software maker Broadcom will spend about $61 billion to acquire the Palo Alto cloud technology company VMware, one of the biggest deals of the year. Broadcom wants […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council indicated last night (May 24) that they’ll approve Castilleja School’s permit to renovate its campus and expand enrollment, as […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Santa Clara County voters are deciding on a measure that will allow longtime Valley Water board members to stay on beyond term limits that […]

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent  After years of debate and more than 20 public meetings, the Palo Alto City Council on Monday (May 23) could approve Castilleja School’s plans to […]

Correction: A statement attributed to Palo Alto Police Chief Robert Jonsen about the Wayne Benitez case in an earlier version of this story was incorrect. It has been removed. BY […]

By the Daily Post staff Two people in a car tried to remove a ring of an elderly woman who was walking along Middlefield Road near Channing Avenue using her […]

By the Daily Post staff A woman has been arrested after she broke a glass panel on the front door of a home and a homeowner watched as her bloody […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Councilwoman Alison Cormack announced today (May 13) that she will not seek re-election after one term on Palo Alto City Council, paving the […]

Palo Alto school board member Jennifer DiBrienza has paid $30,000 to buy a medal honoring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. DiBrienza said she hopes having Ginsburg’s medal will be a “a […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A car chase ended last night after a fleeing driver crashed his Ford Mustang onto a front lawn in Palo Alto and running […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Unified School District has agreed to give classrooms back to Palo Alto Community Child Care’s after-school kids’ club — reversing […]

By the Daily Post staff A 55-year-old man from Washington state has been arrested for burglary after he was found inside the Goodwill store at 4085 El Camino Way in […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police say they caught one of the two men who burglarized a bicycle shop on El Camino Real on Thursday (April 28) morning, […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto’s police chief, fire chief and emergency services chief will take questions from the public during a meeting on May 10 at Mitchell Park […]

By the Daily Post staff Four people have been arrested after stealing from Lululemon in downtown Palo Alto and hitting a truck as they fled, police said. Their BMW was […]

By the Daily Post staff A man in a ski mask with a handgun robbed a Palo Alto resident at about 6:15 last night on Channing Avenue at Bryant Street […]

By the Daily Post staff A prowler wearing a face mask with “monster teeth” brandished a small knife after a resident confronted him through a window in south Palo Alto […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer In an updated lawsuit, six Palo Alto police officers are claiming that a city-commissioned Black Lives Matter mural created a hostile workplace that […]

By the Daily Post staff A woman in the 3300 block of Park Boulevard in Palo Alto told police that somebody changed the wording on her yard sign from “Black […]

By the Daily Post staff A woman on Alma Street in Palo Alto got a surprise when she discovered that somebody had torn down her Ukrainian flag, and left it […]

By the Daily Post staff A Palo Alto man who invited a woman he met online to his house early this morning (April 7) was robbed at gunpoint by the […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police last night (April 5) arrested three women suspected of hitting and pepper spraying a Macy’s security officer at the Stanford Shopping Center. […]

Four teenage boys from Oakland were arrested after allegedly robbing a woman and trying to steal her vehicle at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto on Monday evening, according […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Instead of un-encrypting its police radios, Palo Alto City Council voted early this morning (April 5) to improve an online map that shows […]

UPDATE: After this article was printed on March 21 and posted online March 30, Eric Nickel, executive director of the Silicon Valley Regional Interoperability Authority (SVRIA), wanted us to point […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A homeless man who died in Palo Alto last month was declared to have died in 2003, after a long search by his […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted tonight (March 21) to have the Historic Resources Board consider listing about 130 homes on a historic register, […]

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 […]