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• Watsonville leaders to discuss Flock contract
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• Bracing for El Niño: County looks to better forecasting, more alerts, road work
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• Capitola council candidate concerned over indoctrination of children by pro-LGBTQ+ educators, governments
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• Moss Landing battery facility reignites 1.5 years after fire
  Smoke rises from the Vistra Corp. lithium battery energy storage facility at the Moss Landing power plant on J…
• Learn to identify invasive beetles that threaten trees in Santa Cruz County
  An oak tree in Henry Coe State Park. (Nik Altenberg — Santa Cruz Local file) Shothole borer beetle meetings 10…
• Fallout from Watsonville airport land use dispute throws hotel, shopping center into jeopardy
  Land use disputes related to the airport have landed the city of Watsonville in court numerous times. (Amaya E…
• With developer chosen, Town Center plan in Scotts Valley advances
  The Scotts Valley Town Center plan stretches across 58 acres in the center of the city, including commercial s…
• Santa Cruz to build a new type of mental health care center for youth
  Serenity Smith, who lived at a residential treatment facility in Santa Cruz in 2024, drives to work in Aptos o…

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• The News: September 21, 2026
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• Bad News for the News Industry
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• The News: September 14, 2026
  The 25th anniversary of 9/11 is observed across the state; Local news is reporti…
• California Forever. Religious freedom now.
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• California Forever Faces a Setback
  The Solano County Board of Supervisors punts, effectively killing an assembly bi…
• The News: September 7, 2026
  What the Flock? People hate being spied on; cities and towns are gearing up for…
• California Local 2.0
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• The News: August 31, 2026
  Candidates for local office are campaigning for the Nov. 3 election, but there a…

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  On April 22, 2026, Cruzio had the opportunity to speak on a panel at a Californi…
• Cruzio celebrates completion of Equal Access Summits to the Sea project
  SANTA CRUZ- Cruzio Internet is celebrating the completion of their ambitious Equ…
• The Critters We See When We Build Infrastructure
  Out on the job, Cruzio’s top-notch tech crews encounter all sorts of animals. We…
• An Otterly Excellent Story
  As if you needed it, there’s another reason to love our local sea otters: they’r…
• Local Businesses & Giant Octopus Celebrate Cruzio’s 35th Birthday
  We edited this photo to look like a 1950s horror movie. But the tentacles were r…
• Giant Slugs & Giant Sloths — That’s So Santa Cruz
  In the Santa Cruz Mountains we’re used to getting slimed by banana slugs, which,…
• First Friday at Cruzio Featuring Liminal Space!
  Liminal Space Art Collective is a group of Santa Cruz artists building bridges a…
• Faster Internet Coming to Coastside San Mateo
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• 🎨 First Friday at CruzioWorks!🎨
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• Black-footed Cats
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• A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government
  The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vow…
• 5 Arrested on Suspicion of Terrorism Near RAF Fairford Air Base in UK
  The British counterterrorism police say the men were arrested after three suspic…
• Giant Pandas, Icons of China’s Soft Diplomacy, Arrive in Atlanta
  A male named Ping Ping and a female named Fu Shuang landed on Sunday, days after…
• ‘She’s One of Us’: Mary Peltola’s Bumpy Rise to Political Power
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• Trump’s War With Iran Drags Down Republicans in Midterm Elections
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• The Daredevil Aviator on Page 1
  In 1910, there was no greater journalistic mission than following a plane with a…
• The Mean Girls Presidency
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• As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
  The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with arti…
• Kyle MacLachlan: David Lynch’s Singular Weirdo Is Secretly a Normie
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• Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
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• Watch: BBC reports from the front-line of an escalating war in Yemen
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• Watch: The ups and downs of SpaceX's 13 Starship test flights
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• Embattled Serbian president resigns, paving way for early elections
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• Pope says 'scourge' of abuse must be rooted out as he visits Lourdes
  Pope Leo spoke to bishops before leading a service attended by thousands of wors…
• Two bodies found after avalanche hits Himalayan climbing group
  Rescuers are looking for at least 10 Nepalese people who were preparing to take…
• Woman charged with stealing from patients and staff at hospitals across Ontario
  The 34-year-old is under investigation for incidents that began in February 2024…
• Switzerland rejects stricter interpretation of its neutrality
  The initiative would have prevented the nation from imposing sanctions unless ap…
• Venezuela releases dozens of political prisoners as election calls grow
  A slew of dissidents being released from long-term detention comes days after th…
• Two mass shootings in South Africa leave 27 dead
  The two attacks hours apart come as the country struggles to stop high levels of…
• One dead as nor'easter storm pummels New York and New Jersey
  Tens of millions of people from Maine to Virginia found themselves in the path o…

• Waymo Says Its Self-Driving Cars Reduced Injury-Causing Accidents by 82%
  Waymo’s self-driving car technology “continues to outperform human benchmarks,”…
• After Dozens of Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI Pauses Model Training to Build More Safeguards
  “OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest AI models,” reports the Associ…
• New Tin-based Solar Cells Trap Heat 1,000 Times Longer, Could Beat 33% Limit
  Could this push solar cell efficiency beyond the theoretical 33% limit? Interest…
• China and the US Say They've Agreed to Start Talks About AI
  The United States and China have agreed to “launch a dialogue” on AI, reports Re…
• KDE and GNOME Developers Ponder How to Handle AI-Generated Contributions
  Last weekend KDE’s annual Akademy conference included a presentation proposing a…
• After 40 Years, Microsoft Excel Will Add Single-Cell Lists and Arrays
  Microsoft’s senior product manager for Excel acknowledges that “Throughout Excel…
• AI Finds So Many Linux Bugs, Canonical Changes to a Two-Week Stable Release Update Cycle
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• Is Microsoft Quietly Killing Off Its 'Copilot+ PC' Brand?
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• Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User-Uploaded Images Onto the Internet, Accessed US Government Websites
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• Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response
  A New Mexico jury on Friday “found Facebook liable for deceiving users” about it…

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