Palo Alto, CA

A Caltrain hit a car at the Alma Street and Churchill Avenue crossing in Palo Alto yesterday. Nobody was in the car at the time of the crash around 6:40 [...]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer City Manager Ed Shikada says he asked the campaign supporting Measure J, the half-cent sales tax, to remove their banner from a city overpass. [...]

Mountain View officials are planning to hire Justin Mates, the assistant San Mateo County executive, as the city attorney. City Council is scheduled to appoint Mates on Tuesday (Nov. 10). [...]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller said he walked out of the Bay Area Air District’s meeting after 20 minutes Wednesday (Nov. 4) because [...]

Anthony Edward “Tony” Wynne passed away peacefully in his Atherton home on October 23, 2026. Born in 1948, he was the third child of Joseph Aloysius Wynne and Barbara Whalen [...]

Nine votes separates incumbent Menlo Park Councilman Drew Combs and challenger Vamsi Velagapudi in the council race for District 2, which includes the Willows, Flood Triangle and Lorelei Manor neighborhoods. [...]

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BY ADAM ECHELMANCalMatters Voters have decided 14 ballot propositions including the billionaire tax, which appears to have failed. Now the lengthy vote-counting phase of California elections is taking place. The [...]

Palo Alto voters elected Bryna Chang, a planning commission member and strong advocate for better traffic management in neighborhoods, to City Council. She was in first in early results yesterday, [...]

An attempt to impose strict rent control on any apartment built before 1995 in Redwood City appears to have failed in Tuesday’s election. Returns Wednesday show 8,164 “no” votes compared [...]