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Palo Alto Council Considers Name Change For Foothills Park
Foothills Park could be renamed to Foothills Nature Preserve to better distinguish the area as an open space preserve.

Foothills Park could be renamed to Foothills Nature Preserve to better distinguish the area as an open space preserve.

Stevens Creek Trail in Mountain View was closed for about three hours while police used a drone to examine a suspicious object.
A bus bridge will shuttle passengers between BART's Richmond and El Cerrito Del Norte stations during the holiday weekend.
Five suspects were arrested in connection to a stolen vehicle pursuit and foot chase that saw a gunfire standoff with officers, police say.
A robbery suspect armed with a chain was shot last month and a Berkeley officer was placed on administrative leave after the shooting.
The new ordinance replaces an old one that prohibited the commercial sale of cannabis.
John Lynch played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Denver Broncos and was named general manager of the 49ers in 2017.
The San Francisco Unified School District reached a tentative agreement with a group of labor unions on standards for in-person learning.
Unions representing SFUSD employees are resuming negotiations with the district over returning to in-person learning.
The dashboard includes information on total number of residents vaccinated to date, in addition to information by ethnicity, gender and age.
The county's board of supervisors will meet Tuesday to discuss adopting a resolution to address local efforts to diminish opioid abuse.
The Marin County Board of Supervisors will meet Tuesday to consider a plan to silence train horns along the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit.
A slow-moving cold front lurking north of the Bay Area could bring some light rain and wind to parts of the Bay Area this week.
For the period from Aug. 30 through Jan. 30 the university has seen 544 confirmed cases, with a positivity rate of 0.4%.
Four suspects in San Rafael have been arrested in connection to a shooting in early January.
Movie theaters in the Bay Area are staggering under the financial haymaker dealt by the coronavirus pandemic.
A late Saturday night fatal collision along the 101 highway involved four vehicles.
The California Teachers Association told Gov. Newsom that schools in purple tier counties should maintain distance learning for now.
John Marchand's stories don't end as much as they merge, crisscross, and land in places like Moscow or Washington D.C.
Janet Napolitano plans to bring the UC Berkeley community together to explore bipartisan solutions in new Center for Security in Politics.