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 high school student who allegedly brought a gun to school has been cited by Palo Alto police, the department announced Monday.
[Tuesday, March 28, 2023]
The storm that arrived to the Bay Area on Monday and will stay through Wednesday will have many of the features of the March 21 record-breaking "bomb cyclone," with heavy rain, high winds, snow in the mountains and thunderstorms.
[Monday, March 27, 2023]
Anneke Dempsey was concerned about the giant oak in her backyard for years. Its massive limbs could potentially cause the tree to fall onto her or her neighbor's home. On March 14, her fear was realized.
[Friday, March 24, 2023]
Four new sustainability-focused, fair-trade apparel and homegoods stores and a hand-crafted ice cream shop are the newest additions to Town & Country Village, the retail center announced Wednesday.
[Thursday, March 23, 2023]
After a lengthy investigation into whether a Palo Alto equestrian center had been illegally taking water for years out of a city fire hydrant, Palo Alto Utilities has concluded that it occurred only once.
[Wednesday, March 1, 2023]
Marking a thawing of his sometimes fractious relationship with the Golden State, Elon Musk announced Wednesday that Tesla Motors is going to base its global engineering and AI headquarters in Palo Alto at the former HP campus.
[Wednesday, February 22, 2023]
A criminal complaint indicates that thefts from the downtown Palo Alto Apple store that occurred last summer were part of a series of brazen thefts at Apple stores throughout the state.
[Wednesday, February 15, 2023]
Taiwan authorities want to arrest the husband of Mountain View woman Alice Ku for her alleged killing. Her body has not been found.
[Friday, February 10, 2023]
A new drug requiring only a single injection could be a game changer in keeping people with COVID-19 infections out of the hospital, research by Stanford Medicine has found.
[Thursday, February 9, 2023]
Black children who are injured because of suspected child abuse are reported to Child Protective Services more frequently than white children and those of other races, a new Stanford School of Medicine study has found.
[Tuesday, February 7, 2023]