Palo Alto

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 […]

UPDATE, SUNDAY, AUG. 6: The Midtown Residents Association has started a petition drive in the hope that they can persuade the landlords of Mike’s Diner Bar not to evict the […]

Palo Alto police announced today (Aug. 1) that they have arrested one of the dinnertime burglars. The dinnertime burglary crew would go into unoccupied homes during the dinnertime hours and […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a woman who randomly slit the throat of a girl in downtown Palo […]