Sitting on a bleacher on a weekday morning, Gary John, a 77-year-old hammer thrower, pulled on a pair of fluorescent yellow training shoes and strapped a glove onto his right hand. Then he dragged a heavy metal ball by a wire to a dusty concrete ring at Moffett Field. “It’s what keeps me going,” John...

On a recent summer afternoon, an ice cream vendor pushed a brightly colored cart along a residential street in Mountain View. But the chiming music did not draw any customers outside, not even a child — likely because most of the homes on the street sat vacant. For the past several years, tenants have been...

Seven months into the job, Mountain View Mayor Emily Ann Ramos is knee-deep in meetings and ribbon-cutting ceremonies while also working to stay on top of some of the city’s most pressing issues. Since taking the helm in January, Ramos has led the City Council through major upheavals, including revelations of unauthorized access to the...

Mountain View’s redesign of California Street is garnering mixed reviews, with residents split over the move to reduce driving lanes and parking to make way for new protected bike lanes. Work on the roughly $6 million pilot project began in March 2025. The city removed one driving lane in each direction on California Street from...

Most of a downtown Mountain View parking lot is set to close for more than five years as the city begins construction on its new police and fire headquarters — a more than $200 million project that has been in the works for years. Last month, the City Council unanimously approved the closure of Lot...

Mountain View saw the most sluggish growth in its property values out of all cities in the county last year, as the commercial office market remained under pressure. The combined assessed value of commercial and residential properties in Mountain View grew 2.93% in 2025, according to a July 6 report by the Santa Clara County Assessor’s...