The City Council is reconsidering a signal at the intersection, after residents came with a petition of 366 signatures contending a light will endanger students and degrade the neighborhood character.
Hoping to avoid court challenges, a consortium of 24 cities join to conduct public hearings for proposed bag bans, needed to prepare an environmental impact report. The next one, Los Altans, is Wednesday night.
Grants can be used for equipment, training, workshops or other learning tools.
Need to travel north or south on Highway 85 from Los Altos, Mountain View, Sunnyvale or Cupertino? Be ready to detour at certain spot beginning as early as 7 p.m. and through the night.
The Los Altos Town Council gets calls to look at Purissima Hills Water District's fiscal practices, following the second rate hike in three years.
Legislative Analyst's Office finds new business plan to be long on promises, short on secure funding.
David Wood, of the Huffington Post, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize Monday for "Beyond the Battlefield."
Some of us thought that Monday would be the last day to file our taxes, but we get one more day!
Last Wednesday, the Purissima Hills Water District voted to increase rates, to much outcry. Now that the dust has settled, what's the bottom line?
The first leg of the high-speed train line would be running in ten years.
We don't have any pay day loan stores, but the City Council moved preemptively to put a 45-day moratorium on any that might come. The Council then inched closer to a plastic bag ban, a bike transportation plan and parking plan, and examined a gift horse's
Patch is live-blogging the Purissima Hills Water District public hearing on its proposed 12 percent rate increase here at 6:30 p.m.
The City Council reluctantly puts on hold plans for the center after a survey shows insufficient support at any of the dollar figures offered.
Resident Austin Vanchieri says the only way to survival is to consolidate ten water districts.
Councilmember David Casas issued a strong statement in response to what he says is the school district's interest in exercising eminent domain to build another school.
The Purissima Hills Water District's second rate hike proposal in three years—plus an automatic 'pass-through' rate increase provision for five years—is scheduled for a vote right after the evening public hearing April 11.
A poem about the baleen whale inspired Shannon Burks' winning entry in the California Coastal Commission'a Art & Poetry contest, K-1st grade category .
Who knows what they were saying? Los Altos City Council Member Ron Packard and Santa Clara County Librarian Melinda Cervantes were deep in conversation last Thursday at the Garden House in Shoup Park.
The executive director of Community Health Awareness Council recognized by state Senator Joe Simitian.
With four days under her belt, the new city manager was feted at a reception at the Garden House in Shoup Park.
According to a new report, Santa Clara County is the second healthiest county in California.
Revised business plan brings first section of train to LA, reduces costs.
The Purissima Hills Water District, poised to vote on a water rate increase on April 11, calls a special meeting on Monday.
Are there alternatives to soaking customers? Monday's special meeting was scheduled after the Purissima Hills Water District director Gary Kremen wrote a letter urging exploration of several.
It's a short list, but an important one, if you had plans to do court business, go to the DMV, or a county library. Choose something else to do.
A day for public service is the best way Californians can commemorate Cesar Chavez, says Assemblyman Luis Alejo (D-Salinas), who sponsored a resolution commending the contributions Cesar Chavez.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission action Wednesday moves a little closer to realizing the goal of upgrading and electrifying the Caltrain system.
Two pedestrians hit in south Los Altos when a car driven by a teenager rear-ended another claimed their injuries caused missed work and emotional distress.
State Sen. Leland Yee has introduced a new state bill that would prohibit employers from demanding social media passwords from job applicants or employees.
An unintended consequence of term limits, the trend of running to get one's old job again is one way our local representatives try to continue to serve, and stay relevant, perhaps as they wait for another seat to open up.
Los Altos and Los Altos Hills have relatively few numbers compared to other communities in Silicon Valley, which is an international hub.
We've got more: Check out Patch's new feature of upcoming deadlines for camp registration, free film tickets, volunteer trainings, and more. Give us a heads-up about other deadlines on our comments section and we'll include them in the future.
The blog session goes live tonight at 6:30 p.m.! Follow on Twitter: #CivilityMV too. Ask questions, engage with other users, answer polls questions and help move the discussion of immigration reform forward.
At the last public presentation of the proposed civic center plan, several residents lamented the orchard was hardly being preserved.
Powerful voices will come to Mountain View to discuss immigration reform and how it affects the city and region.
This is the last chance to ask questions and get answers, during the final presentation of the proposed Civic Center rebuilding conducted by former Council member Lou Becker.
Four downtown property owners with a long history in Los Altos urge the city to require developer Jeff Morris to 'develop a premium project for our community,' in an open letter to the council and the community.
The campaign event will take place in Mountain View. Among those involved and being honored are Mountain View City Councilwoman Margaret Abe-Koga, and Becky Morgan and Gerry Steinberg of Los Altos Hills.
There are a host of free, easy-to-understand and useful resources to help you understand what you are entitled to under local, state and federal laws.
The six-hour legislative hearing brought together advocates and antagonists of the multi-billion dollar rail project to the lower Peninsula.