Palo Alto

Chris Jensen, currently assistant city attorney in Berkeley, has been hired by the Palo Alto City Council as city attorney, replacing Molly Stump. Jensen was Cupertino’s city attorney from 2021 […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council wants to pay Uber and Lyft to give rides to low-income residents as a way to replace the city’s own […]

Read the agreement here. BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Unified School District will pay former Superintendent Don Austin $596,802 in exchange for his resignation, according to […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council has endorsed a permit program for RV dwellers as a way to cap their numbers and manage their bad behavior. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school board today (Feb. 23) picked Deputy Superintendent Trent Bahadursingh to replace Superintendent Don Austin while the district searches for a […]

Read the statement here. BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Don Austin is stepping down as superintendent of the Palo Alto Unified School District in what is described as a […]

A man has been arrested for trying to take a high school student’s cellphone at the downtown Palo Alto bus station, police said. Roderick Henry Perkins, 60, of East Palo […]

Billionaire Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — whose compound of homes in Palo Alto has become a lightning rod for critics — is in the process of moving to south Florida, […]

Original story posted at 7:12 a.m. Friday; Updated at 12:12 p.m. Saturday. BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor The Palo Alto school board has agreed to pay $3.25 million to Fletcher […]

BY STEPHANIE LAMDaily Post Correspondent The Palo Alto school board yesterday unanimously voted to put a parcel tax renewal on the June ballot.  The tax will be at a lower […]

BY STEPHANIE LAMDaily Post Correspondent Palo Alto High School junior Summer Devi Mehta had a seemingly endless list of activities she loved to do: from listening to hip hop music, […]

BY STEPHANIE LAMDaily Post Correspondent Palo Alto City Council on Monday (Feb. 9) is scheduled to sign an agreement with TheaterWorks for a new theatre at Cubberley Community Center, but […]

Palo Alto police are looking for a group of burglars who broke into a home on Maple Street — while a resident was home. Maple is a one-block street between […]

BY STEPHANIE LAMDaily Post Correspondent The Palo Alto Unified School District is pushing back on union proposals to increase salaries by 28% for teachers and 47% for non-teachers, according to […]

BY STEPHANIE LAMDaily Post Correspondent Palo Alto Unified School District Superintendent Don Austin today (Feb. 5) sent a letter to the City Council asking to close off where Churchill Avenue […]

Palo Alto Police Chief Andrew Binder is out on medical leave, city officials confirmed to the Post tonight (Feb. 2).  During Binder’s absence, due to recurring back pain, Assistant Chief […]

BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent Palo Alto City Council is throwing its support behind an enormous housing proposal near Town and Country Village, but asking the applicants to tweak their […]

A woman has died from her injuries after being struck while jogging in a crosswalk, Palo Alto Police said today (Feb. 2).  The woman, who was in her 50s, was […]