Palo Alto

By the Daily Post staff A vandal wrote a racial epithet directed at black people on a sign at El Carmelo Elementary School in Palo Alto, police said. A school […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto businesses under 5,000 square feet won’t have to pay the city’s proposed business tax if City Council sticks with its latest iteration. The […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Billionaire John Arrillaga, one of Silicon Valley’s largest real estate developers who built and donated hundreds of buildings, died today (Jan. 24) at […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police today said they have arrested two men suspected of breaking into eight cars in the California Avenue district who were caught because […]

This story was originally printed in the Daily Post on Jan. 19. If you want to get the local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings at 1,000 […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Ahead of a potential run for sheriff, Robert Jonsen plans to retire after four years as Palo Alto’s police chief, City Manager Ed […]

California Attorney General Rob Bonta today (Jan. 19) announced a civil rights investigation into the office of Santa Clara Sheriff Laurie Smith, who is fighting formal public corruption accusations following […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A man wielding a fake handgun took purses from two women eating lunch outside True Food Kitchen at the Stanford Shopping Center and […]

By the Daily Post staff Chamath Palihapitiya, a Palo Alto venture capitalist and minority owner of the Warriors, is receiving widespread criticism for saying on a podcast that “nobody cares” […]

By the Daily Post staff Eight men robbed a tobacco store in Palo Alto, pistol-whipping the clerk and making off with merchandise and the cash register, police said. The clerk, […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Update, Jan. 14, 8 a.m. — A man who was exposed to chemicals died yesterday (Jan. 13) on the fifth floor of the […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Manager Ed Shikada has been giving weekly briefings to City Council without the public’s knowledge since he started in 2019. […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police have arrested a man who allegedly smashed a home’s glass front doors and swung at the homeowner with hedge shears before running […]

Most school districts are discouraging parents from coming to school during the omicron surge to prevent schools from closing. Palo Alto Unified Superintendent Don Austin sent out an all-points bulletin, […]

By the Daily Post staff The Palo Alto Courthouse, which some feared would permanently close after a temporary shutdown due to the pandemic, will reopen on May 2, a Santa […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer An unexplained spike in water pressure caused a large pipe to break in two weak spots and leak hundreds of thousands of gallons […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Developer Bill Wu, one of the people behind Palo Alto’s first single-family lot split using the controversial Senate Bill 9, plans to sell […]

This story was first published in Friday morning’s Daily Post. To get the latest local news, pick up the Post in the mornings at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations. BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT […]