Palo Alto

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Firefighters have been unable to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed four businesses in the Midtown Shopping Center of Palo Alto. […]

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent The city of Palo Alto is sinking into a deeper financial hole when it comes to employee pensions, with a pension shortfall of $553 […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Parents at Escondido Elementary School packed the community meeting room at Palo Alto City Hall yesterday to demand the city and school district […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted last night (Sept. 18) to raise natural gas rates starting next month so that bills don’t spike as […]

By Emily Mibach Daily Post Staff Writer For the past couple of years, TV newscasts have featured groups of shoplifters looting stores in California and running out with expensive merchandise. […]

The Palo Alto professor who testified that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had assaulted her while they were in high school has written a memoir. Christine Blasey’s Ford’s “One Way […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council unanimously approved a development agreement tonight (Sept. 12) with the Sobrato Organization that locks in the development of 15 […]

Workers will use trucks spray pesticides in south Palo Alto and a small part of Mountain View on Thursday (Sept. 14) for two to four hours starting at 10 p.m. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council was excited tonight (Sept. 11) by a proposal to build 44 apartments for teachers in a five-story building on […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A Palo Alto police officer drove through six intersections without stopping and passed two large trucks in a car chase down Sand Hill […]

Mike Wallau, owner of Mike’s Diner Bar in Palo Alto’s Midtown neighborhood, said today he will remain in business after a disagreement with his landlords was resolved. The news comes […]

By Braden Cartwright Daily Post Staff Writer Superintendent Don Austin says that the Palo Alto Unified School District has a group of around 30 people who speak out loudly and […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The head of Castilleja School, Nanci Kauffman, who was the public face of the campus’s fight with neighbors in Palo Alto over enrollment […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Humans Relation Commission is recommending two new paid holidays for city employees: Cesar Chavez Day and Juneteenth. Council decided to […]

Aug. 30, 2023 By Braden Cartwright Daily Post Staff Writer A text message exchange between Superintendent Don Austin and school board member Shana Segal has exposed tensions among the leaders […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (Aug. 21) questioned the legality and transparency of City Manager Ed Shikada scheduling a private meeting to talk […]

A Palo Alto man in the 3100 block of Cowper Street heard a knock on his door yesterday morning, but didn’t respond because he was in a virtual meeting, police […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto residents are saying that a consultant didn’t focus on neighborhood shopping centers when coming up with an economic strategy for the city. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto council members are trying to ensure that a new policy to discipline each other isn’t wielded for political purposes and is […]

The following story has been revised with additional information provided by the city Utilities Division. A vehicle hit a power pole in the 700 block of Charleston Road on Sunday […]