Sunnyvale News

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The project had been delayed due to a lawsuit that challenged portions of the project's environmental impact report , but the project will now proceed with the City plan.

The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety has been busy fighting fires throughout the state, as does during many fire seasons.

The future of bus service in Santa Clara County will be unveiled today, when the public gets its first glimpse at plans for a new, rapid-service line along Alum Rock Avenue and Santa Clara Street in San Jose.

Sunnyvale Elementary and Fremont Union High School districts are putting their schools to work in cutting energy costs by installing solar panels at their campuses.

The Sunnyvale City Council was expected to ratify a deal with the Sunnyvale School District on July 15 to split the cost of a $3 million, 3,549-square-foot expansion of the Columbia Neighborhood Center.

Each morning when Nam Cheung looks out his kitchen window, he is greeted by a 20,000-gallon fiberglass water tank half the size of a tractor-trailer, plus a 20-foot tan masonry wall 7 yards beyond that.

It sounds like cruel and unusual punishment: locking a school kid away for hours all alone, or taking them down to the ground and pinning them there, just for misbehaving in class.

Concerns about slow paramedic response times and possible changes to the county EMS contract prompted the Sunnyvale City Council to consider revamping paramedic services.

A Sunnyvale golf tournament that raises money to fight cancer and was inspired by the surprising birth of a baby boy has almost tripled in size since it launched four years ago.

The word on Sunnyvale City Councilman Dave Whittum is split. Ask the people who voted for him, and he's a maverick crusader promoting neighborhood interests that are otherwise ignored.

Concerns about slow paramedic response times and possible changes to the county EMS contract prompted the Sunnyvale City Council to consider revamping paramedic services.

Silicon Valley Community Newspapers has been following the cross-border issue at the neighborhood level, and noticed a few cases where the need for cross-border collaboration is clear.

Although holiday food drives bring in significant amounts of food, summer is when food demand reaches its peak.

The Sun periodically provides updates on the $400 million Town Center redevelopment project headed by Sand Hill Property Co.

Recovery continues to be difficult for the people burned out of the 18-unit Sunset Apartments in May in Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvale announced it will run a drop-in cooling center at the air-conditioned Sunnyvale Senior Center, at 550 E. Remington Drive.

Two motorcyclists were injured Saturday night when their motorcycle traveled off U.S. Highway 101 in Sunnyvale into a ditch, according to the California Highway Patrol.

State Highway 237 will close overnight this week between Mathilda Avenue and Lawrence Expressway in Sunnyvale to allow for roadwork, city officials said.

Sunnyvale planners intend to spend $300,000 by next summer to study the possibility of encouraging mixed-use, transit-oriented development near the Lawrence Caltrain station.