Palo Alto

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Humans Relation Commission is recommending two new paid holidays for city employees: Cesar Chavez Day and Juneteenth. Council decided to […]

Aug. 30, 2023 By Braden Cartwright Daily Post Staff Writer A text message exchange between Superintendent Don Austin and school board member Shana Segal has exposed tensions among the leaders […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (Aug. 21) questioned the legality and transparency of City Manager Ed Shikada scheduling a private meeting to talk […]

A Palo Alto man in the 3100 block of Cowper Street heard a knock on his door yesterday morning, but didn’t respond because he was in a virtual meeting, police […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto residents are saying that a consultant didn’t focus on neighborhood shopping centers when coming up with an economic strategy for the city. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto council members are trying to ensure that a new policy to discipline each other isn’t wielded for political purposes and is […]

The following story has been revised with additional information provided by the city Utilities Division. A vehicle hit a power pole in the 700 block of Charleston Road on Sunday […]

UPDATE, SUNDAY, AUG. 6: The Midtown Residents Association has started a petition drive in the hope that they can persuade the landlords of Mike’s Diner Bar not to evict the […]

Palo Alto police announced today (Aug. 1) that they have arrested one of the dinnertime burglars. The dinnertime burglary crew would go into unoccupied homes during the dinnertime hours and […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a woman who randomly slit the throat of a girl in downtown Palo […]

The Palo Alto Daily Post has a rare opening in our marketing department for an account executive. Pay range is between $40,000 and $70,000 based on sales. If you’re ambitious, […]

A stranger ripped the necklace off of the neck of a man in his own backyard on Ross Road this morning, police said. The assailant remains at large following the […]

This story was originally published July 7 in the Daily Post. After we printed it, other publications rewrote this story as if it was original reporting on their part. To […]

Palo Alto police arrested two fraud suspects and seized a loaded handgun after the suspects rammed their truck into a patrol car, fled and later rammed a second police car. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A nonprofit that runs Palo Alto’s senior services has erected a tent in its parking lot and will welcome back a nonprofit that […]

Someone took $60,000 worth of jewelry from a house in Palo Alto’s Crescent Park neighborhood while a family was out yesterday for Fourth of July, police said. The residents said […]

The Palo Alto Police Department has arrested a teenage boy in connection with a phone robbery that occurred last year, but said they are still looking for a second suspect […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Businesses in the Midtown neighborhood of Palo Alto are struggling, so they’re trying to get organized and ask for the city to help. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer When Palo Alto City Council approved a program to make it easier for residents to switch from natural gas to electric water heaters, […]

By the Daily Post staff Firefighters knocked down a fire in the garage of an Eichler home in south Palo Alto this morning (June 21). Multiple people called 911 to […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Councilman Pat Burt said yesterday (June 20) that California’s high-speed rail may never come to the Peninsula, which would affect the […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Fair Political Practices Commission was sympathetic yesterday (June 15) toward Palo Alto Councilwoman Julie Lythcott-Haims, who is trying to exempt herself from […]

By the Daily Post staff A bald eagle crashed into a window of a Palo Alto home and stunned himself, likely while hunting a smaller bird, according to animal control […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Two men passed out at the same time at Lytton Plaza after taking opioids, and police officers and firefighters managed to revive them […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A man who had suffered a drug overdose was dropped off by his friends in a parking lot at Stanford Hospital, police said.  […]

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Mia Rose Tuifua, who graduated from Palo Alto High School yesterday and will become the first in her family to go to college, […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Four student speakers gave a window into life at Gunn High School during yesterday’s graduation ceremonies, and their experiences ranged from one filled […]

This story was first published in Friday’s Daily Post. To get the important local stories first, pick up the Post in the morning at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations. BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Residents are petitioning the city of Palo Alto to do something about a man who is lighting fires, cutting down trees, screaming swear words […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer UPDATE, MAY 27 — The Palo Alto Unified School District will hire a team of “behavioral intervention coaches” following a fight with a student […]

The following story was first printed in the Daily Post on May 12. If you want to stay up-to-date on local news, pick up the Post in the mornings. Our […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto is settling a dispute with the Stanford Shopping Center for trying to stop the installation of a natural gas […]

A vandal ripped down a Pride flag at a Palo Alto church, and police say they’re investigating it as a possible hate crime. An employee at First Lutheran Church, 600 […]