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• Watsonville City Council approves new restrictions on Flock cameras
  The Watsonville City Council on Sept. 22 adopted tighter restrictions on the use of automated license plate re…
• Watsonville leaders to discuss Flock contract
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• Bracing for El Niño: County looks to better forecasting, more alerts, road work
  Part of Lank Tree Lane in Boulder Creek collapsed during heavy rain in February 2025. (Amaya Edwards — Santa C…
• Capitola council candidate concerned over indoctrination of children by pro-LGBTQ+ educators, governments
  Retired fire battalion chief and Capitola Planning Commissioner TJ Welch is running for Capitola City Council….
• 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
  McClatchy slashes newsrooms nationwide, including at its once-great flagship, th…
• 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.
  Local opposition stalls the planned Delta city, while a former president speaks…
• 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…

• Cruzio at the CPUC: What We Shared About Connecting San Jerardo
  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
  Earlier this year, the state of California awarded Cruzio $5.65 million to impro…
• 🎨 First Friday at CruzioWorks!🎨
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• Black-footed Cats
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• Nor’easter Live Updates: Heavy Rain and Wind Batter Northeast, Bringing Coastal Flooding
  The storm flooded low-lying areas, knocked out power for thousands and forced th…
• Trump Rejects Iran’s Cease-Fire Proposal to Reopen Strait of Hormuz
  The president said the deal was not “acceptable” and demurred on whether he woul…
• Rahm Emanuel, Eyeing 2028, Makes His 2026 Play
  The longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his…
• How El Niño Is Shaping Storms on Two Sides of the U.S.
  Hurricanes near Hawaii. A nor’easter on the East Coast. The ocean phenomenon’s i…
• It’s Time for the W.N.B.A. to Pick Sides
  The league has an invaluable opportunity right now; it can be a reflection of th…
• VoteVets Spends Millions to Elect Democrats, Shaping Midterms
  The organization, founded in 2006 to back Democratic veterans opposing the Iraq…
• ‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission
  The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health…
• Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean.
  The legendary actor on his disturbing childhood, his Hollywood missteps and the…
• Bobby Pulido, a Texan Singer, Puts Republicans on Defense
  Bobby Pulido, a Tejano musician running as a Democrat for the House, has left hi…
• The Homeless Community in Portland That Became Self-Governed
  Portland’s Dignity Village has been a place for people without housing for more…

• Pope praises young people's 'energy and commitment' at huge open-air Mass in Paris
  Around 700,000 people gathered in central Paris to hear the Catholic leader spea…
• White House bars CNN from travelling with Trump on Air Force One
  CNN was scheduled to fly with US President Donald Trump for his trip to Tennesse…
• Tenth woman's body found in South Africa suburb as police probe killings
  The deaths have sparked a national outcry about the scale of violence against wo…
• Trump rejects Iran deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz in seven days
  The US president says Tehran had only put forward the proposal because it is los…
• Nor'easter storm brings coastal flooding, as New York and New Jersey declare emergency
  Tens of millions of people from Maine to Virginia are in the path of the powerfu…
• German town bans 'stumbling stone' memorials to Nazi victims
  Germany’s education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial pla…
• Brazil's Lula bans online gambling ahead of presidential election
  Lula, who is currently in a tight presidential race against Flávio Bolsonaro, sa…
• Watch: Bangkok declared flood disaster zone
  Heavy rain over the last two days has overwhelmed Bangkok’s water systems, with…
• Security lapses at Utah campus where Charlie Kirk was killed, review says
  The indpendent report also says Kirk’s aides insisted he speak outdoors, overrid…
• British national among six dead in building explosion close to Acropolis in Athens
  Four Americans and a Greek national are among those killed in a suspected gas ex…

• 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
  “Finding vulnerabilities faster also puts pressure on Linux distributions to fix…
• Is Microsoft Quietly Killing Off Its 'Copilot+ PC' Brand?
  “Copilot+ PCs” were Microsoft’s official branding for Windows 11 “AI PCs” that m…
• Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User-Uploaded Images Onto the Internet, Accessed US Government Websites
  53 images that users uploaded into OpenAI models were included in training data…
• 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…
• There's a New Way to Break RSA Encryption
  “Signature forgery.” It’s a new way to break RSA keys — and it doesn’t require f…
• Asteroids Named After Tom Lehrer and 'Weird Al' Yankovic
  “Weird Al” Yankovic’s name has just been approved for a new asteroid — (14331) A…
• Raspberry Pi Stock Jumps 30% as Demand Surges. (And Boards Now Locked to Their Original RAM Size)
  Raspberry Pi’s stock shot up over 30% in the last week. Why are investors so exc…
• F-Droid 2.0: FOSS Android Appstore Continues Updating Despite Google's Pending 'Developer Verification' Plan
  “F-Droid, a third-party app repository that only distributes free and open-sourc…
• How Believable is Google's New 'Live Avatar' Capability?
  Google has synthesized “expressive face-to-face experiences” for its speech agen…

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