Palo Alto

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 […]

Palo Alto police body-cam video of the incident. Mountain View police body-cam video (scroll to the bottom). BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto paid […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Wasting no time, an architect has applied to build four homes on a single-family lot in Palo Alto. The development falls under Senate […]

This story was originally published in the print edition of the Daily Post on Oct. 1. To get all of the local news first, pick up the Post at 1,000 […]