Palo Alto

A thief who was part of a duo stealing a Toyota Prius’ catalytic converter today pulled a gun on the car’s owner, police said. The car owner, a Palo Alto […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Landlords will have to start paying the city of Palo Alto around $40 a year to register each of their rental units, council […]

A San Francisco developer, taking advantage of the “builder’s remedy” provision of state law, has submitted plans for a 17-story apartment tower on the Mollie Stone’s site at 156 California […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A former Palo Alto police officer who slammed a handcuffed man into a car windshield and then lied about it on his police […]

The musical chairs have begun in mid-Peninsula politics. Anna Eshoo, who has represented the Palo Alto area in Congress since 1993, announced today (Nov. 21) that she won’t seek re-election […]

A pair of thieves tried to smash their way into a designer consignment store in downtown Palo Alto on Thursday but were thwarted when the wooden handle of their hammer […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Since the city of Palo Alto reduced California Avenue from four to two lanes a decade ago, a total of 21 businesses that […]

Voters in the Los Altos School District have approved a $295 parcel tax with 75% of the vote, more than the two-thirds necessary. The total was 6,401 in favor (75.1%) […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted tonight (Nov. 6) to permanently close California Avenue to cars. City Manager Ed Shikada had suggested another one-year […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Historic Resources Board will consider adding 66 private properties to an inventory of local historic resources on Thursday, Nov. 9. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The long-awaited replacement of the Newell Road Bridge to protect homes from flooding is at risk of being delayed another year, according to […]

This story was originally published in the Daily Post on Oct. 13, but because of high interest in the subject, we’re posting it again to make it easier to find. […]

An organized crew hit The RealReal in downtown Palo Alto and stole jewelry and designer handbags worth more than $50,000, police said. Four men entered the store at 379 University […]

Palo Alto police said today they have arrested the suspect who carjacked a motor home in the Ventura neighborhood last week and returned the stolen vehicle to the victim, who […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council will consider leaving California Avenue closed to cars for another year while a consultant studies the future of the […]

One person is dead after a motorcycle hit several vehicles on northbound Highway 101 just past San Antonio Road in Palo Alto, the CHP said. At 2:42 a.m. Saturday, a […]

Palo Alto police are looking for a tan Ford motorhome that was carjacked on the 400 block of Matadero Avenue early this morning, while the owner was asleep inside. At […]

This story was originally published in the print edition of the Daily Post on Wednesday, April 12. If you want to stay on top of local news, pick up the […]

A man tried to snatch a woman’s purse in the Midtown neighborhood of Palo Alto but was scared off — the second such incident in that area in nine days, […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Police Department has assigned a crossing guard to Escondido Elementary School after a 12-year-old boy was hit by a car, […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Firefighters have been unable to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed four businesses in the Midtown Shopping Center of Palo Alto. […]

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent The city of Palo Alto is sinking into a deeper financial hole when it comes to employee pensions, with a pension shortfall of $553 […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Parents at Escondido Elementary School packed the community meeting room at Palo Alto City Hall yesterday to demand the city and school district […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted last night (Sept. 18) to raise natural gas rates starting next month so that bills don’t spike as […]

By Emily Mibach Daily Post Staff Writer For the past couple of years, TV newscasts have featured groups of shoplifters looting stores in California and running out with expensive merchandise. […]

The Palo Alto professor who testified that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had assaulted her while they were in high school has written a memoir. Christine Blasey’s Ford’s “One Way […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council unanimously approved a development agreement tonight (Sept. 12) with the Sobrato Organization that locks in the development of 15 […]

Workers will use trucks spray pesticides in south Palo Alto and a small part of Mountain View on Thursday (Sept. 14) for two to four hours starting at 10 p.m. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council was excited tonight (Sept. 11) by a proposal to build 44 apartments for teachers in a five-story building on […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A Palo Alto police officer drove through six intersections without stopping and passed two large trucks in a car chase down Sand Hill […]

Mike Wallau, owner of Mike’s Diner Bar in Palo Alto’s Midtown neighborhood, said today he will remain in business after a disagreement with his landlords was resolved. The news comes […]

By Braden Cartwright Daily Post Staff Writer Superintendent Don Austin says that the Palo Alto Unified School District has a group of around 30 people who speak out loudly and […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The head of Castilleja School, Nanci Kauffman, who was the public face of the campus’s fight with neighbors in Palo Alto over enrollment […]