Palo Alto
Pickpocket caught taking wallet out of purse
By the Daily Post staff The man and woman in this picture are suspected of trying to steal the wallet of a woman who was walking down El Camino Real […]
Opinion
Run for City Council only if you want to improve your city
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor This is the time of year when possible City Council candidates begin testing the water to see if they should run in November. […]
Palo Alto
Wife of former Los Altos City Manager paid to resign cities association to settle lawsuit
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Cities Association of Santa Clara County has reached a separation agreement with its former executive director, who is the wife of former […]
Mountain View
City draws the line with pickleballers
By BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer As pickleball explodes in popularity, tennis players are losing ground in the city of Mountain View. The Parks and Recreation Commission voted on […]
Mountain View
Woman arrested on suspicion of fighting and committing a hate crime against a Palestinian
By the Daily Post staff A homeless woman has been arrested for a hate crime after fighting an 18-year-old Palestinian woman and making ethnic slurs at her, police said. Dispatchers […]
Palo Alto
Another possible candidate for City Council
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Another candidate has filed paperwork to explore a bid for Palo Alto City Council. Hope Lancero, 56, a medical researcher at Stanford, filed […]
San Carlos
Palo Alto
Higher pay lures Palo Alto police away
By BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Police Department is seeing an exodus of police officers leaving for higher pay, more opportunity and a shorter commute to […]
Palo Alto
Power restored to Stanford after three-day outage
Three days after a power outage knocked out electricity to nearly 9,000 PG&E customers in San Mateo County Tuesday — an outage that also included sprawling Stanford University — a […]
San Mateo County
House candidates like gas tax holiday
By EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Both David Canepa and Kevin Mullin, who are running to replace Congresswoman Jackie Speier in the House, support President Biden’s call to suspend […]
Palo Alto
Woman says rape by P.E. teacher in 2001 has led to life-long trauma
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A PE teacher who allegedly raped an 11-year-old girl in a locker room at Greene Middle School — before she was old enough […]
Stanford
Power outage keeps Stanford closed
Tuesday’s wildfire in the hills above Redwood City has disrupted power to Stanford and may keep the campus closed through Friday. The Edgewood Fire damaged a PG&E transmission line that […]
Palo Alto
Snubbed councilwoman votes against business tax; support dropping
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer After negotiations with business leaders went nowhere, the Palo Alto City Council has put off a decision until August on whether to put a […]
Redwood City
Wildfire burns 20 acres in Emerald Hills, power outages at Stanford
UPDATE 9:30 P.M. TUESDAY — All evacuation orders have been lifted, and residents can return home, but be ready to leave if needed. The fire is currently 20 acres and […]
Palo Alto
Three consider jumping into City Council race
This story first appeared in Monday morning’s Daily Post. If you want to get local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations. BY BRADEN […]
East Palo Alto
Two teens arrested in murder
This story was printed first in Thursday’s Daily Post. To get important local news first, pick up a copy of the Post in the mornings at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations. By […]
In the news
High-speed rail authority plans more fences, bigger gates
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer The High Speed Rail Authority is planning to create a “sealed corridor” along the Caltrain tracks, with fences and bigger gates from San Jose […]
Palo Alto
Woman in her 70s attacked on downtown street; suspect is a transient
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A homeless man attacked a woman in her 70s in downtown Palo Alto, sending her to the hospital with injuries to her head, […]
San Mateo County
Hale moves into second place in Assembly race; Republican pushed out of runoff
BY MELODY XUDaily Post Correspondent Redwood City Mayor Giselle Hale edged into second place for the state Assembly seat being given up by Kevin Mullin. Hale passed Republican Mark Gilham, […]
Palo Alto
Justin Murphy named new Menlo Park City Manager
By the Daily Post staff Justin Murphy, currently Menlo Park’s interim city manager, will become the city’s next permanent manager, City Council decided today in a closed session, according to […]