Palo Alto

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent A candidate in the 2018 race for Palo Alto Unified school board has lost his appeal in a case in which he accused a […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT  Daily Post Staff Writer  In an update to City Council about recent storms, City Manager Ed Shikada touted the city’s online presence, and one council member said […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (Jan. 9) picked Lydia Kou as mayor and Greer Stone as vice mayor for 2023. Kou’s appointment was […]

Mayor is shown first, followed by vice mayor. An asterisk (*) denotes a year in which the previous year’s vice mayor became mayor. Before 1982, mayoral terms ran from July […]

Sunday, 10 a.m. — Power has been partially restored to some residents in Palo Alto this morning, with more expected to be restored by noon. Power was restored to some […]

By the Daily Post staff A man opened the door of a woman’s car and grabbed her purse from the passenger’s seat of her car parked near Greer Park while […]

By the Daily Post staff 11:05 p.m. Power is out to about 2,000 Palo Alto residents at this hour. High winds have downed trees that have brought power lines along […]

By the Daily Post staff The National Weather Service says Palo Alto will be under a flood watch on Wednesday (Jan. 4) and Thursday, when there’s a 100% chance of […]

By the Daily Post staff • Creek flood monitors fail; • Palo Alto runs out of sandbags; • Water flow on San Francisquito Creek exceeds 1998 flood UPDATE, 5:47 p.m. […]

By the Daily Post staff 9 p.m. — The number of Palo Alto electric customers without power continued to dwindle into the night. Crews restored power to most customers in […]

A 28-year-old man was arrested on Christmas night after he stole a car in downtown Mountain View that had two children inside, police said. A woman called Mountain View police […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer A man who was bitten by a police dog after attacking a gay man in downtown Palo Alto while allegedly yelling homophobic slurs was […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted tonight to build a fiber internet network that would compete with Comcast and AT&T. The city will do the […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council agreed tonight (Dec. 19) to extend a contract with a company that has been underpaying janitors for more than four […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council welcomed a suggestion tonight (Dec. 12) to update and enforce the city’s ban on short-term rentals. A ban against […]

The former CEO of failed cryptocurrency firm FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, was arrested today (Dec. 12) in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government, U.S. and Bahamian authorities said. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto is planning how to use space at City Hall that will open up once police and fire administration […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A customer at the Apple Store in downtown Palo Alto recorded a Black Friday heist by two men, and the video shows the […]

By the Daily Post staff Police arrested a suspect today (Nov. 22) in a drive-by shooting of Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse at the Stanford Shopping Center. Zachary Michael Ginsberg, 32, of […]