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A Live in Los Altos, but work in Sunnyvale? On June 2, at 1 p.m., the Sunnyvale Main Post Office, located at 580 N. Mary Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94088 will close.

Voters on June 5 will decide on Measure H, a $220 million school facility and repair bond put forth by the Cupertino Union School District.

Five quakes averaging a 1.5 on the Richter scale smattered through Santa Clara County last week.

Mike succumbed to cancer on May 23, 2012 at home surrounded by his loved ones. Formerly from Los Altos, California, he served in the U.S. Navy and later owned and operated "Sprit of Palo Alto Aviation" Flying School and more recent Caron Appraisal Services in Stockton.

Economic interests versus environmental protection was the overriding theme at Thursday's hearing of the Santa Clara County Planning Commission concerning long-term restoration plans for Lehigh Southwest Cement's Permanente Quarry.

From 12:01 a.m. Friday through midnight Sunday, Santa Clara County law enforcement agencies have arrested 38 individuals for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

A Los Altos Patch's "It's Our Business" is back, after a little hiatus. It's a variation of "Look For This, Los Altos!" and the idea is simple: We shoot a scene from inside a business found somewhere in Los Altos.

If you're leaving Los Altos for the weekend, or just planning day trips, here are some traffic tips.

For a do-it-yourselfer there's one major problem with Maker Faire -too many choices.

A Cupertino Union School District announced this week the appointment of Dr. Wendy Gudalewicz as its new superintendent.

Term-limited out of the state Senate, Palo Alto's Joe Simitian is running for the Santa Clara County supervisor seat he occupied before winning state office.

It's crunch time for Cupertino students, and Cupertino Community Hall is opening up for four nights dedicated to cram sessions.

However, the band of Jewish citizen lobbyists that descended upon the state capital last week had little in common with the Armani-suited influence peddlers who turned the like-named street 2,400 miles away into a metonym for the Washington, D.C. lobbying industry.

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Cloud-based storage provider Box on Thursday released new features aimed at enterprise customers, offering storage management tools for IT administrators and a new enterprise licensing agreement it says will lessen the cost of using the service in large deployments.

Iceland is an intrepid walker's dream. The landscape is filled with active volcanoes, lava-tube caves, waterfalls, geysers, bubbling mud and thermal lagoons -- ideal for soaking after a long day on foot.

A By LASDVoices Parents in the Los Altos School District have decided to take action to keep existing neighborhood schools open.

A Among the too-many great things going on last weekend was the annual Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco.

Scenes from Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs film will be shot in the actual Los Altos, Calif., house where Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple, producers said.