Palo Alto
Man arrested on suspicion of shooting student with BB gun
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A man shot a child with an air rifle at an elementary school in Palo Alto, police said. The student, who attends Stratford […]
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Gunfire rings out in quiet neighborhood park
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A man fired a gun at a park in Palo Alto yesterday (Aug. 31), and then he sped off in his car with […]
Palo Alto
City council split over criminal background checks for the homeless in RV parking lots
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto City Council is split over whether to require criminal background checks for homeless people who legally sleep in church parking […]
Palo Alto
City hasn’t reached an agreement with its unions about requiring employee vaccinations
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto hasn’t enacted a Covid vaccine requirement for its employees, despite management holding meetings with union leaders over the […]
Palo Alto
Council eliminates viaduct option for rail crossings
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto City Council tonight (Aug. 23) voted against building a viaduct to separate the train tracks from the street because they […]
Palo Alto
Palo Alto schools unveil rules for masks on campus
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto elementary and middle school students will be required to wear masks outdoors beginning on Monday (Aug. 23), Superintendent Don Austin said Friday. The […]
Palo Alto
Suspect in downtown throat-slitting was convicted of stabbing her baby daughter in 2012
The following story was originally published in Saturday’s print edition of the Daily Post. To get all of the local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings at […]
Palo Alto
From lobster to apartments — developer wants to replace Fish Market with housing
This story first appeared in the print edition of the Daily Post on Aug. 13. To get all the local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings at […]
Palo Alto
Girl stabbed in unprovoked attack downtown; suspect arrested
By the Daily Post staff A 16-year-old girl is hospitalized with major injuries after she was stabbed by a stranger in an unprovoked attack on a crosswalk in downtown Palo […]
Opinion
Guest opinion: Here’s how City Council could revive downtown
GUEST OPINION BY JOHN McNELLIS Once upon a time University Avenue was the main entrance to Stanford University. Not today. Our City Council shut the avenue a year ago in […]
Palo Alto
Serial ADA plaintiff targets restaurants with tables outdoors
This story first appeared in the Aug. 5 print edition of the Daily Post. To get local news first, pick up the Daily Post in the mornings at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula […]
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State DOJ won’t let Palo Alto end police radio encryption
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The California Department of Justice has closed the door on Palo Alto Police’s attempt to unencrypt its police radio transmissions. In March, Police […]
Palo Alto
Survivors of Japanese American internment camps gather for event on Sunday
By the Daily Post staff The Palo Alto Buddhist Temple is inviting all survivors of World War II Japanese American internment camps to an event on Sunday (Aug. 15) that […]
Palo Alto
Another woman groped by a bicyclist
By the Daily Post staff For the second time in a week, a man groped a woman on a sidewalk in Palo Alto. On Monday (Aug. 9) at 2:22 p.m., […]
Palo Alto
Police searching for sexual battery suspect
By the Daily Post staff A woman in her 60s walking along Middlefield Road in Palo Alto was smacked in the buttocks by a bicyclist, police said. Police got a […]
Palo Alto
Palo Alto father dies after rescuing child at Lake Powell
A Palo Alto man drowned after rescuing his child who was struggling to swim in Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border. The man was identified as Phil Chiang, 49. The […]
Palo Alto
Customer erupts into an anti-Asian tirade at Fuki Sushi
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Lumi Gardner, the owner of Fuki Sushi, was the victim of a racist tirade from one of her customers, who screamed at her […]
Palo Alto
Homeless reject offers of shelter, police say
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer When Palo Alto Police tell the people who have been living in the downtown parking garages to move along and offer to secure […]
Palo Alto
Firefighters put out a smoky fire in parking structure
BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor A small fire erupted at about 5:20 p.m. today (July 15) on the fifth floor of the Webster/Cowper parking structure in a homeless encampment. […]
Palo Alto
Homeless encampments popping up in downtown parking structures
This story was first printed in the Daily Post on July 2. A follow-up story printed on July 9 appears below it. BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Two homeless […]