Mountain View News

Ying Ma talks about her experiences after moving from China to Oakland at age ten.

Interested in getting involved with public works projects? The City of Mountain View is seeking applicants for a Citizens Working Group to assist with a feasibility study for the development of the Stevens Creek Corridor.

Nostalgia lines the shelves in Videoscope, Mountain View's last video rental store.

Orchard Supply Hardware, a locally owned business since 1931, said Monday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but will keep operating its iconic name while turning over most of its stores to hardware rival, Lowe's.

Taking a page from the Summer Solstice yoga fest in New York's Times Square, five local yoga teachers will hold a free, public, outdoor yoga session Friday, June 21. Palo Alto yoga teacher Manjiri Subhash, who "grew up around yoga" in India, urges yoga practitioners of all levels to unroll their mats in Rinconada Park from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on the ... (more)

Editor's note: Menlo Park resident Madeline Jhawar is the owner of Italy Beyond the Obvious travel consultancy.

Mountain View police have released a composite sketch of a man whom they believe attempted to break into a home on the 900 block of Boranda Avenue on June 11. In a press release, acting MVPD Lt.

By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Kovio, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent developed by four co-inventors for a "method for modifying and controlling the threshold voltage of thin film transistors."

The Miami rapper simply refuses to leave the dance party, or, for that matter, let anyone else exit.

In the comedy "The Internship," Billy and Nick are watch salesmen who lose their jobs when the company they work for goes out of business.

EMBARGOED UNTIL 8 PM Friday, June 14, 2013. In this supplied photo taken March 1, 2013, at Mountain View, California, a fully inflated test balloon sits in a hangar at Moffett Field airfield.

A high-speed chase through Mountain View turned into a manhunt Thursday night, after the car police were pursuing collided with another vehicle and careened off the road -- crashing into a traffic control box.

The Solar Impulse takes off from St. Louis early Friday morning with Solar Impulse co-Founder and CEO Andre Borschberg at the controls.

Singer Bob Dylan will embark on a 33-date tour of Europe starting in Oslo on October 10 and ending at London's Royal Albert Hall on November 28, a statement on his website said on Friday.

Mountain View, CA, Jun 14, 2013 -- Continuing his international quest to bring together the best minds in big data, Aerospike co-founder and CTO Brian Bulkowski will travel to China to host Aerospike's first Real Time Big Data NoSQL Meetup.

The Peninsula JCC raised $332,000 at April's Cabaret Under the Stars to help fund its latest innovation, Gan Tzedek .

Residential burglaries continue to be a problem in Mountain View, with four burglaries and one attempted break-in over a three-day period, according to police reports.

Earlier this month Poland's blackened death metal merchants, Behemoth announced they had to cancel this year's Mayhem Festival appearance.

Any Bay Area eater worth his or her weight in kosher salt, and who follows the laws of kashrut, knows what I am about to say: A fabulous kosher restaurant has been operating in the South Bay for 20 months.

In city budget discussions on Tuesday, the City Council supported adding $50,000 to next year's library budget for new books, CDs, and DVDs and other materials.