Palo Alto

By the Daily Post staff A car chase that ended in a crash by Gunn High School started after deputies tried to pull over a driver for a traffic violation, […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police are looking for three burglars who broke into a house in the middle of the night and were ransacking it when an […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Superintendent Don Austin is coming down hard on Palo Alto High School students after more than 100 of them went over to the […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council decided Sept. 12 to remove Columbus Day from the calendar and instead celebrate the second Monday in October as […]

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BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Students were fired up last night (Sept. 9) as the Palo Alto Vikings cruised to a 41-0 blowout victory over the Gunn Titans […]

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer After an intense discussion, and a parent threatening that donations would be withheld from the school district, the Menlo Park City School Board […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer City of Palo Alto officials said yesterday they turned off the power to about 1,700 customers because of incorrect information they got from […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Sept. 2, 2022 City Manager Ed Shikada says that a proposed business tax in Palo Alto is just the beginning. “The measure approved […]

Update, 1:35 a.m. Tuesday: The power outage that hit southwest Palo Alto on Monday night appears to be ending. The city Utilities Department just posted an update saying the number […]

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By the Daily Post staff A failed underground cable that was 44 years old is to blame for a power outage that hit thousands of homes and businesses in northeast […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer An appeals court judge has ruled in favor of a project to replace a bridge over the San Francisquito Creek, paving the way for […]

By the Daily Post staff Following a call from an alert witness, police swarmed a downtown parking lot and arrested a pair of armed auto burglary suspects after their vehicle […]

By the Daily Post staff A construction worker died this morning after falling down a shaft inside the tallest building in downtown Palo Alto, the 15-story office plaza at 525 […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (Aug. 22) approved a permit allowing four people to sleep in their cars at the First Congregational Church […]

Aug. 15, 2022 BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto wants homeowners to convert their natural gas stoves and water heaters to electric appliances, so […]