Palo Alto

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon says the U.S. Justice Department is preparing to investigate Stanford over the funding it gets from China and other foreign countries, and […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (Aug. 17) unanimously approved an eight-story, 228-apartment building on San Antonio Road, despite concerns about traffic safety. “This seems […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council was split tonight (Aug. 17) over allowing homeowners to build and sell larger backyard cottages. Backyard cottages — also known […]

Palo Alto police are investigating a fatal one-car collision on the Oregon Expressway.    On Sunday (Aug. 16) at 11:49 p.m., police dispatchers received a call about a major collision […]

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says elite institutions like Stanford Law School are “presumptively off limits” to conservative figures like him.  Speaking at a Hoover Institution forum on Aug. 11, […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Manager Ed Shikada wants to expand a program that allows the homeless to sleep in the downtown library during storms.   […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto’s new school superintendent wants to get rid of administrative positions and bring back an in-house attorney to the Palo Alto Unified School […]

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BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer The longtime head of Palo Alto’s Junior Museum & Zoo was paid to resign without suing the city, according to a settlement agreement obtained […]

(Read the federal lawsuit.) BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer A group of Jewish parents and students are suing the Palo Alto Unified School District for taking a class on […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Mayor Vicki Veenker says the public’s reaction to a planning commissioner allegedly trying to get special treatment at a tow yard prompted […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council was caught tonight (Aug. 10) between residents trying to slow down traffic and a man who says a curb extension […]

Palo Alto planning commissioner Forest Olaf Peterson has resigned just before City Council was scheduled to discuss whether to remove him from the commission after it became public that he […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Police Department is adding two more Rivians to its fleet, including the first electric vehicle that will be used for patrols. […]

As the clock ticks down for candidates to appear on the November ballot, new candidates have tossed their hats in the ring in two Palo Alto races.  For the Palo […]

At a glance Where Council stands on the Peterson case April 13Four of the seven council members vote to reappoint Peterson to the planning commission, even though they had received […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Neighbors are trying to stop two developments in Palo Alto that are using a new state law that allow taller apartment buildings near Caltrain […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Two Palo Alto councilmen are pushing their colleagues to release a report on a planning commissioner who was accused of trying to get special […]

The Post first published this story back on July 31. We’re publishing it again because one of our competitors has re-written it and is serving it up as if it […]