Children from new North Bayshore housing would flood local schools
School district officials are raising concerns that the explosive residential growth would require several new schools and... Last comment 51 minutes ago | 36 comments

School board approves new attendance boundaries
Rejecting a last-minute attempt to balance diversity among Mountain View's elementary schools, the Mountain View Whisman... Last comment on Jun 22, 2017 at 10:58 pm | 34 comments

New Monta Loma Safeway opening June 18
A new Safeway supermarket will be opening for business this Sunday, June 18, at the Monta Loma Plaza space formerly occupied... Last comment 5 hours ago | 27 comments

Peninsula Foodist
by Elena Kadvany
The Post to bring comfort food, cocktails to Los Altos
Jun 22, 2017 | 1 comment

Couple's Net
by Chandrama Anderson
We’ve Been Married About a Year . . .
Jun 22, 2017 | 0 comments

Invest & Innovate
by Steve Levy
My Quality of Life on this Father's Day
Jun 18, 2017 | 3 comments

"El Camino Hospital Foundation"
Kenny Loggins on stage at El Camino Hospital Foundationâ??s first annual Sapphire Soirée. More than $650,000 was raised for the El Camino Hospital Cancer Center. Four hundred twenty community leaders, physicians and Foundation supporters attended the gala evening on May 14 at Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club in Menlo Park in celebration of El Camino Hospitalâ??s 50th anniversary. Photo by Moanalani Jeffrey Submitted by Shara Hall on Jun 7, 2011

Mountain View council rejects downtown hotel plan
Mountain View leaders on Tuesday pulled the plug on negotiations to sell or lease a downtown park so it could be redeveloped into a luxury hotel. The council announced they unanimously voted against the plan at a June 20 closed-session discussion. Friday, 7:23 PM | 3 comments

Police searching for carjacking suspect who fired a gunshot
Mountain View police are looking for a man suspected of firing a gun at a liquor store and later carjacking a Honda CR-Z in the Rex Manor neighborhood Thursday night. Friday, 12:16 PM | 5 comments

Startups push to preserve net neutrality
Mountain View's tech startups are girding themselves for a big political fight over the data vital to their businesses. Smaller web companies say they could be crippled by slower bandwidth while premium data service is reserved for the large tech giants. Friday, 8:21 AM | 1 comments

Fifth summer Spare the Air day issued for Friday
A Spare the Air smog alert has been issued for Friday in the Bay Area, the second day in a row that regional air district officials have warned of unhealthy air quality expected. Thursday, 3:42 PM

Cool moves in the hot sun
Eagle Park's swimming pool was the place to keep cool during the heat wave that's been bringing record-breaking temperatures to Mountain View.
Thursday, 2:20 PM

Former Army housing site eyed for North Bayshore school
Like manna from heaven, a school campus-sized site may have opened up in North Bayshore to serve the thousands of new households being planned for the area. But it will be no easy task for local officials to secure 30 acres of lucrative land located just a stone's throw from Silicon Valley's richest companies. And the land itself has one key drawback: contamination from TCE, a dangerous chemical. Thursday, 12:13 PM | 10 comments

Legislation introduced to allow Caltrain sales tax
State legislation introduced Wednesday would allow Caltrain to seek voter approval for a new sales tax to help cover capital and operating costs. Wednesday, 5:35 PM | 10 comments

Spare the Air smog alert issued for Thursday
The fourth Spare the Air alert has been issued in the Bay Area for Thursday by regional air quality officials, as a result of light winds and triple-digit temperatures in the region. Wednesday, 2:13 PM

Bringing astronomy down to earth
For the last 45 years, astronomy professor Andrew Fraknoi has made it his mission to translate groundbreaking astronomical studies and the complex inner workings of the cosmos into everyday language. Wednesday, 9:36 AM | 3 comments

Grand jury: districts make tax exemptions tough to get

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Heat wave this week prompts weather advisory, Flex alert