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Monday 5/6: CSUMB: All Out for Palestine
Main Quad, California State University, Monterey Bay
Friends of the Rail and Trail
Listed under: Transportation
New Training Facility Proposed for Santa Cruz Police and Fire
Leaders of Santa Cruz Police and Santa Cruz Fire have a new $20 million training center in their long-term plans to replace outdated facilities inside and outside the city.
Scotts Valley Water District Well Replacement Project Restarts
Construction of Scotts Valley Water District’s 1,500-foot-deep Sucinto Well is underway.
From Lookout Local...
Wharf Restaurant to Be Demolished
Because of damage to pilings sustained in a December storm, the Dolphin Restaurant is set to be taken down to effect repairs to the end of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf.
Bond Considered to Finance Facility Upgrades
The Scotts Valley Unified School District is looking into a bond measure on the November ballot to fund upgrades and improvements to classrooms and facilities.
State Report on Homeless Services Calls for More Accountability
A recent state report about two California cities’ homeless services spending echoes concerns raised in a 2023 Santa Cruz Local investigation about how money is spent on homeless services in Santa Cruz County.
Organic Rising: Central Coast Farmers Featured in New Film
Anthony Saua, director of Organic Rising, talks about the rise of organic agriculture and its importance to health, the environment and slowing global warming,
From Santa Cruz Sentinel...
Harvey West Park Homeless Encampment Cleared
The City of Santa Cruz cleared an encampment used by 30-40 people from the Harvey West Friendship Park on May 1.
Teen Kitchen Project Grows
The Teen Kitchen Project is building a new kitchen space in Soquel to expand meal production capacity to meet demand from those in need.
Female Lowriders Celebrated in Watsonville
Filmmaker Gloria Morán discusses her film, Unique Ladies about an all-female lowrider club in San Diego. Her screening is part of a five-day Cinco de Mayo celebration in Watsonville of lowrider culture.
Following the Fall Creek Fish Ladder Trail
It is a short walk from where you park on Farmer Street to the bridge over the new $2.3 million rebuild of the Fall Creek Fish Ladder.
Reprieve for Live Oak Farmers Market
The management of the East Cliff Village Shopping Center negotiated a new one-year lease with the Live Oak farmers market, giving them more time to find a new location.
Pro-Palestine Encampment at UCSC
Hundreds of UCSC students and faculty participated in a peaceful march to the Quarry where several dozen protestors set up tents.
Groundbreaking Ceremony for Ramsay Park Renaissance Project
Congratulations Nick Merolla: 2024 Youth Champion of the Year!
FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Raw Pork Chorizo Products Due to Possible Foreign Matter Contamination
Updated information, including news and Explainers, about progress in building the 32-mile stretch of the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Scenic Trail in Santa Cruz County.
A celebration of the work of an artist who devoted a career to preserving the wildlands he loved. Plus: News you can use, and a tasty recipe!
Ee celebrate the efforts our fellow humans have made and are making to help heal our planet and connect us, while we simultaneously consider what we must do to protect our communities as the climate crisis worsens.
Meet the hippie intellectual who changed the world with the first published photograph of our entire planet.
California communities are focusing resources in response to the effects of climate change and other challenges.
A Tesla lobbyist, an LA-based environmental group, and Gov. Jerry Brown brought a rule minted in Sacramento to Beijing, and helped launch China’s EV industry.
We take a look, or rather a listen, to Davisville, a radio show and podcast on low-power but high-energy KDRT 95.7, broadcast out of Davis, California.
Heat pumps, an energy-efficient way to both heat and cool homes, are a necessary element of California's climate goal of net zero carbon emissions. Here's what they are, how they work, and how to get one.
A bill to mandate use of the method will not advance in the Legislature this year in the face of teachers union opposition.
A new bill would make it illegal for homeless residents to camp in certain places, such as near schools, throughout California. Its authors say such a ban has had great success in San Diego. But a closer look at that …
In an analysis of more than 1 million votes cast by current legislators since 2017, CalMatters Digital Democracy reporter Ryan Sabalow and CBS Sacramento reporter Julie Watts found that Democrats vote “no” less than 1% of the time on average.
This week, a virtual visit to Surf City USA—a great place to experience the season of rebirth and renewal that's worth a drive from anywhere in our coverage area.
There is no scientific explanation for the conditions that make an eclipse inevitable. It’s a coincidence. Or a miracle.
Santa Cruz County is home to amazing murals. One amazing person is working to document them in one place.
On Hilltromper, a conversation with Felicia Van Stolk of the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History about her Garden Learning Center.
The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History has some tips on what to see in the blossoming new season, from wildflowers to migrating shorebirds to humpback whales.
Some of California’s top lawmakers want to clear up, but also rein in, the “builder’s remedy.”
A type of resurrection involving big birds, and two efforts that offer help to individuals whose lives have been impacted by addiction.
After being reduced to three or four nesting pairs in all of California in 1944, Sandhill Cranes have come back from the brink and are returning to Lake Tahoe.
May 1 – 7, 2024
Highlights this week: Bratton... is back!...Greensite ...Gillian will soon return with her regular weekly piece... Steinbruner...Charter cities and counties, Soquel Creek Water.... Hayes... Advoca...
Night shifts to dawn
At first darkness yields only very slightly and the first bird to sing is quiet, murmuring a few quizzical, uncertain, almost apologetic notes. A few minutes later, that same bird sings the same f...
W.E. O’Neil Construction Co. Unqualified to Bid on U.C. Santa Cruz Student Housing Project
W.E. O’Neil Construction Co. Unqualified to Bid on U.C. Santa Cruz Student Housing Project, Carpenters Union Alleges
Sunday 5/5: For Gaza, With Love
Quarry, UC Santa Cruz
Second Lawsuit Filed to Protect Hawaiian Petrels From Dangerous Lighting at Maui’s Grand Wailea
HONOLULU, May 2, 2024 — A coalition of conservation groups today filed a second lawsuit to protect Hawaiian petrels (ʻuaʻu) from dangerous lights used by the Grand Wailea Resort on Maui. Hawaiian ...
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