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Tens of thousands of homeowners will see their property taxes go up significantly this year as rising home values restore some or all of their homes' lost equity, Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone said Monday.

The Immigrant House, pictured here on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, in downtown Mountain View.

The City Council voted quietly and unanimously to allow car-sharing company Zipcar to park four of its cars in downtown Mountain View on Tuesday.

Dead cell phone batteries are one of life's biggest bitches. Most people's mobile phones are glued to them at the hip-or the hand, if you will-and being cut off from communication sucks some major balls.

The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford holds its spring concert on May 28, featuring live and multi-channel works including final projects from CCRMA students in various classes.

US lawmakers concerned over potential privacy abuses associated with Google Glass have contacted the Mountain View, California-based tech giant for clarification about the project, various media outlets are reporting.

Source: AP-Excite By MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON - The organic food industry is gaining influence on Capitol Hill, prompted by its entry into traditional farm states and by increasing consumer demand.

The first in a series of such actions nationwide, advocates for immigrant rights in Mountain View made their point this month by going without food and speaking to church congregations up and down the Peninsula.

Wu-Tang Clan , Tyler the Creator and Big Krit will take the stage at this year's Rock the Bells Festival, along with the holographic images of fallen hip-hop icons Ol' Dirty Bastard and Easy-E. The traveling hip-hop festival begins Sept.

Clovis Unified flipped the switch Friday on phase 1 of its new 5.9-megawatt solar power system.

In an incident a local eyewitness described as "horrific," a person was fatally injured after falling or jumping off the Rengstorff Avenue overpass onto Highway 101 around 11 a.m. this morning, May 17, according to the California Highway Patrol and Mountain View police.

Palo Alto's Tuttle family joins forces with frequent musical collaborator A.J. Lee, a young vocalist, for a bluegrass concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18.

Right around the time Of Monsters and Men were playing "Little Talks" for the second time -- in the same concert -- it became clear that this isn't a band with a lot to offer right now.

Everyone seems to agree that marching up and down a football field while banging on drums or playing the horn is hard work.

This file artist's rendering shows the Kepler space telescope. NASA scientists are attempting to repair the spacecraft after it apparently lost its long-distance planet-hunting abilities.

Another plaque simply won't cut it as Mountain View looks to honor residents who have served in the U.S. armed forces, the city council declared this week.

WhatsApp is one of Silicon Valley's most buzzed-about companies, yet it actively avoids the spotlight, operating out of a small office in Mountain View, Calif., with no sign on the building entrance or on the office door.

As Palo Alto nears the finish line in adopting a long overdue housing vision, residents in one neighborhood are rising up to protest a late revision in the document that would accommodate a controversial senior-housing development on Maybell Avenue.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney's office announced that 56-year old Jon Reno St.

The lineup has been announced for the 2013 festival - and it's a good one. Kid Cudi, Black Hippy and Wu-Tang Clan are among the top artists taking part in the tour, which stops Sept.