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The Mountain View City Council voted 6-0 to adopt two firearm safety ordinances that require firearm dealers to obtain a local permit, and bans gun and ammunition sales in homes.

Officials are struggling to solve the growing number of RVs lining city streets. Mayor Matt Mahan and three San Jose councilmembers want to explore ways to manage homeless residents living in vehicles while simultaneously ramping up available safe parking sites.

Milpitas has an exclusive rideshare service much cheaper than Uber for locals to get around town—but not many people know about it. The Simple Mobile Access to Reliable Transit (SMART) program is a city rideshare service with a fleet of six vehicles.

The city of Mountain View is looking to clean up its process for so-called gatekeeper projects, where developers propose projects out of sync with existing zoning and require changes to the general plan.

The Palo Alto professor who testified that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had assaulted her while they were in high school has written a memoir.

The Palo Alto Unified School District is moving to adopt an ethnic studies graduation requirement starting with the Class of 2029.

Three Santa Clara councilmembers have filed state and local ethics complaints against Mayor Lisa Gillmor and an influential political group aligned with her, San Jose Spotlight reports.

A revenue measure that will increase taxes is making its way onto the November 2024 ballot, with the Mountain View City Council agreeing that more cash is needed to pay for ambitious projects.

The Mountain View City Council voted to terminate an agreement for the joint operation of campus fields, while also giving the school board a one-time chance to accept terms to create a new agreement.

Despite pushback from students, teachers and others, the California State University system will see tuition hikes.

Councilmembers Peter Ortiz, Dev Davis, David Cohen, Domingo Candelas and Bien Doan are proposing a study session to learn more about the relation of the Muwekma Ohlone people—an Indigenous tribe from Santa Clara County—to wider San Jose.

Palo Alto approved a landmark deal with Sobrato Organization that paves the way for redevelopment of Ventura’s largest property and that allows the developer to replace a portion of the old Fry’s building with townhomes.

Seeking to bring order to the city’s nascent and chaotic parklet scene, the Palo Alto City Council adopted a suite of rules for outdoor dining spaces in University Avenue and portions of California Avenue.

In a sign of further fraying relations, the city is considering terminating a more than six-decade agreement with the Mountain View Whisman School District for the joint operation of campus fields.

Santa Clara is being sued by Brian Doyle, its former city attorney, who claims officials fired him unlawfully as part of a hushed agreement with San Francisco 49ers owners.

Incidents involving use of the systems, commonly known as drones, in firefighting airspace have led to the temporary suspension of critical aerial firefighting operations a half-dozen times so far this year.

Cases are on the rise, and so are hospitalizations and deaths. So the federal government's release of new, updated COVID boosters feels like good timing.

The tuition increases were forecast earlier this year, when a Cal State task force concluded the system needs at least $1.5 billion annually in new revenue to afford student services and bolster its academic offerings.

About 5,300 companies would file annual emissions reports. The aim is to hold corporations accountable for the role they play in climate change.

There’s an official state bird, mineral, tree, fish, insect, lichen, fabric, sport, dance, soil and even dinosaur.

Naloxone, a nasal spray that can reverse the adverse effects of opioids, became available in drug stores last week. The drug is sold under the brand names Narcan and RiVive and can be purchased over the counter.

Eight community colleges in California are testing out a new education model, one that defines success by the skills a student learns, not the time they spend in a classroom. But changing the traditional education system isn’t easy.

A bipartisan bill would create a state ombudsperson to intervene when public records requests are denied. But an advocacy group is concerned that it will encourage state agencies to go to court.