Palo Alto

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 7 A.M. — A student at Palo Alto High School was killed by a Caltrain yesterday at the Churchill Avenue crossing, Principal Brent Kline said in a […]

Moderates beat out the progressives in the race to become Democratic Party delegates in Marc Berman’s Assembly District 23, according to vote totals released tonight (March 3). The winning slate […]

BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Correspondent A downtown Mountain View bakery and cafe faces an estimated $100,000 in damages after a fire broke out this morning at 8:06 a.m.  The […]

This article appeared in the Feb. 28 edition of the Daily Post. If you want all of the local news first, be sure to pick up a copy every morning. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Facing a potential recall, Palo Alto school board member Shounak Dharap is defending his approach to governing, which was informed by his own […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council has voted to bring back a fire engine to the station at Mitchell Park, where neighbors are afraid slow response […]

Stanford Athletic Director Bernard Muir, who oversaw the Cardinal’s move from the Pac-12 to the ACC, is expected to resign from his position before the end of the school year, […]

BY  OLGA R. RODRIGUEZAssociated Press Writer Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of Palo Alto’s Theranos, will remain in prison after losing a bid today (Feb. 24) to overturn her fraud conviction, […]

Palo Alto police said today (Feb. 24) that they are investigating two occurances of a jewelry theft scam on the same day. Police were called by a man in his […]

A 78-year-old Hawaiian man has been convicted of the brutal and long-unsolved murder of a teenage Palo Alto girl more than four decades ago, according to the Santa Clara County […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer A man who robbed a mail carrier with a fake gun in Palo Alto has avoided jail time, court records show. Trevionne Levar Williams, […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer An effort to recall Palo Alto school board member Shounak Dharap has ceased because the campaign didn’t provide verifiable addresses as the law requires, […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer A group of parents is trying to recall Palo Alto school board member Shounak Dharap after votes to eliminate Honors Biology and mandate Ethnic […]

The San Jose branch of the NAACP and the Muwekma Ohlone tribe want Santa Clara County to remove a 63-year-old mural in the Palo Alto Courthouse that they say denigrates […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Fire Chief Geo Blackshire tried to reassure a gathering of residents on Thursday that his department is taking a systemic, data-driven approach […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer A resolution that condemns board member Rowena Chiu’s social media activity following a heated Ethnic Studies debate has sparked a conversation about how Asians […]

Three men who were part of an overnight cleaning crew have been arrested in a series of overnight restaurant burglaries in Palo Alto that netted $16,000, police said today. Police […]

The Palo Alto school board will be asked Tuesday to strip a board member Rowena Chiu of her committee assignments because she reposted a social media comment that allegedly caused […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer After seeing the destruction from the fires in Los Angeles, residents are clamoring for the city of Palo Alto to restore a fire engine […]