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.
The search for the killer in a nearly 40-year-old cold-case murder of a 15-year-old Palo Alto teen has led to the arrest of a 75-year-old man from Hawaii, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.
[Tuesday, August 9, 2022]
Lawyers for the three Pets in Need employees facing trial in the deaths of seven puppies last year will ask a Superior Court judge next week to let them to enter a diversion program instead of going through a trial.
[Thursday, August 4, 2022]
A parolee who allegedly threatened a grocery store employee and challenged police officers to a fight led authorities on a foot chase before his arrest near Palo Alto High School on Wednesday, police said.
[Thursday, August 4, 2022]
Santa Clara County will begin offering the new Novavax COVID-19 vaccine starting today, county officials said. The shots will be available at all county health system vaccination sites.
[Tuesday, August 2, 2022]
Evidence of the monkeypox virus has shown up in Bay Area wastewater since mid-June, indicating the presence of infection, according to data from Stanford University's Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network.
[Tuesday, July 26, 2022]
The number of deaths from fentanyl poisoning accounted for a staggering 80% of fatalities from all opioids in 2021 in Santa Clara County, 12 times the number of fentanyl-related deaths in 2018, according to county data.
[Thursday, July 21, 2022]
Santa Clara County plans to make the newly approved Novavax COVID-19 vaccine available to the public once supplies arrive, the Public Health Department said in a statement on Wednesday.
[Wednesday, July 20, 2022]
The county has teamed up with two mental health providers to bring the Trusted Response Urgent Support Team program to Palo Alto and other nearby cities in October, Supervisor Joe Simitian said.
[Tuesday, July 19, 2022]
Bay Area air quality from thousands of fireworks explosions on and around July 4 reached dangerously unhealthful levels in some local neighborhoods, according to air-quality data.
[Friday, July 15, 2022]
Two candidates are heading to a runoff this fall in the sheriff's race, the incumbent district attorney has won another term and board members of Santa Clara Valley Water District get a longer term limit.
[Friday, July 15, 2022]