Sue Dremann is a veteran journalist who joined the Palo Alto Weekly in 2001. She is an award-winning breaking news and general assignment reporter who also covers the regional environmental, health and crime beats.
She has covered plane crashes, murders, police shootings and other breaking news stories. Sue has written about the Bay Area's dwindling water supply,drought,wildfires and COVID-19.
A second Fisher House to provide on-campus housing for veterans and their families while receiving treatment at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System has been approved by Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki.
[Thursday, August 25, 2011]
Palo Alto firefighters and paramedics rushed to University Avenue Monday evening to help a patient who was impatient to get her first glimpse of the world.
[Wednesday, August 24, 2011]
Thieves broke into Palo Verde Elementary School and stole several classroom keys and possibly two computers Sunday (Aug. 21), Palo Alto police said.
[Wednesday, August 24, 2011]
A June 8 plane crash at the Palo Alto Municipal Airport was due to pilot error, National Transportation Safety Board investigators found.
[Wednesday, August 24, 2011]
A brain-circuit defect that triggers the most common form of childhood epilepsy has been identified by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers.
[Tuesday, August 23, 2011]
A Palo Alto resident helped nab an early morning burglar after he caught him stealing from an apartment-complex storage area Saturday, according to Palo Alto police.
[Tuesday, August 23, 2011]
Hundreds of permit-parking spaces in downtown Palo Alto are unused, according to the recently completed parking analysis by the city, which studied 12 surface lots and five city parking garages: Alma and High North, Alma and High South, Bryant Street, Cowper and Webster and City Hall. ==B Related material:==
■ [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/media/reports/1313776660.pdf Downtown parking map]
■ [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/media/reports/1313776687.pdf Chart detailing use of downtown garages and lots]
■ [http://cityofpaloalto.org/depts/pln/transportation/projects/university_parking_study.asp Maps showing downtown parking usage, surveyed by time of day]
[Friday, August 19, 2011]
A new operator to run Caltrain has been selected by rail officials, potentially ousting Amtrak after a 20-year relationship, Caltrain management announced.
[Friday, August 19, 2011]
The Santa Clara County District Attorney on Thursday (Aug. 18) warned homeowners facing foreclosure to beware of scammers promising to change mortgage terms.
[Friday, August 19, 2011]
Police have nabbed a suspected teenage burglar after a foot chase on Garland Drive and Louis Road in Palo Alto Thursday afternoon (Aug. 18).
[Thursday, August 18, 2011]