Palo Alto

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto City Council appointed 10 new members to its boards and commissions tonight (April 3). Allen Akin and incumbent Cari Templeton will be on […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted tonight (April 3) to explore building a facility that could process solid human waste on a site by […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A developer is getting around the city of Palo Alto’s 50-foot height limit by invoking the “builder’s remedy” — a law that allows […]

By the Daily Post staff Four high-end stores and a craft ice cream shop are opening in the Town & Country Shopping Center in Palo Alto, a retail broker announced […]

By the Daily Post staff A man in his 80s has died after a truck hit him in a crosswalk in Palo Alto, police said. Officers are looking for witnesses […]

By the Daily Post staff The Palo Alto Utilities Department says that of 12:30 today (March 22) there are still 116 customers without electrical power, but that’s a far cry […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A Court of Appeal today (March 20) ordered the city of Palo Alto to give a developer his money back that was supposed […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The cost of building a new homeless shelter in Palo Alto has gone up again. An 88-unit shelter at the end of San […]

This story was first published in Friday morning’s Daily Post. If you want all of the important local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings. BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT […]

By the Daily Post staff The federal government has agreed to refund the city of Palo Alto $24 million for overcharging on electricity, at the same time the city is […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A Palo Alto woman who helped female candidates run for local office has died in a car crash in Joshua Tree, according to […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police have arrested a 49-year-old man who is accused of violently assaulting a woman, leaving with her with injuries that required hospitalization. Damian […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer A mistake made by city planners long ago came back to haunt Palo Alto City Council tonight (March 13) as they grappled with whether […]

By Braden Cartwright Daily Post Staff Writer The Federal Aviation Administration won’t allow Palo Alto City Council to crack down on lead fuel and noise pollution at the Palo Alto […]

This story originally appeared in the Thursday morning, March 9, edition of the Daily Post. If you want to read local news stories first, pick up the Post in the […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted tonight (March 6) to ban guns at schools, polling places and government buildings in the wake of a […]

Palo Alto police have arrested a man suspected of threatening two people and telling one of them to “go back to your country” last week in Palo Alto is in […]

By the Daily Post staff A motorcyclist on San Antonio Road in Palo Alto struck a pole and died last night, police said. The female motorcyclist was identified by the […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted tonight (Feb. 27) to ban e-bikes on unpaved trails in the Baylands, siding with environmentalists who said that e-bikes […]