• Editorial | Vote Yes on six school bonds on Nov. 5 Santa Cruz County ballots
  Voters in various areas of the county will weigh in on six school bonds on the Nov. 5 ballot. All require a 55…
• Photo | Surfer geared up and ready to go at Steamer Lane
  A helmeted surfer slides around Lighthouse Point as she tames a Steamer Lane wave in Santa Cruz this week. Sur…
• Photo | Brown pelican, gull cross paths along West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz
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• Santa Clara women’s basketball coach Bill Carr resigns after eight seasons
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• Daniels returns at QB, but Stanford can’t keep up with No. 11 Notre Dame
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• Local leaders celebrate Monterey Bay climate resilience grant
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• Cal football: Bears come up just short again in 17-15 loss at No. 22 Pittsburgh
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• San Jose State’s quarterback shuffle comes up flat in loss at Colorado State
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• Veteran Sharks defenseman recalls moment when he realized injury “was pretty bad”
  SAN JOSE – San Jose Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic said Saturday that the upper-body injury that kept h…
• Seven candidates vie for three spots on Scotts Valley City Council
  SANTA CRUZ — With seven candidates in the race for three open seats on the Scotts Valley City Council, and inc…

• High school football in pictures: Our staff’s best photos of Week 7, 2024
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• After 3 years on the run, New Zealand father confounds searchers
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• Santa Clara women’s basketball coach Bill Carr resigns after eight seasons
  Five months after losing its best women’s basketball player, Santa Clara announc…
• Daniels returns at QB, but Stanford can’t keep up with No. 11 Notre Dame
  Stanford’s season is going downhill in a hurry. Stanford suffered its third stra…
• Blue Angels air show canceled Saturday due to fog
  SAN FRANCISCO — Fog created unsafe weather conditions that forced the Blue Angel…
• Cal football: Bears come up just short again in 17-15 loss at No. 22 Pittsburgh
  Cal keeps getting close, but once more a first-ever victory in the Atlantic Coas…
• San Jose State’s quarterback shuffle comes up flat in loss at Colorado State
  FORT COLLINS, Col. — San Jose State switched quarterbacks five times but could n…
• Alameda County: Thousands of PG&E customers without power after morning outage
  By Bay City News Nearly 7,000 PG&E customers in Alameda County lost power on Sat…
• Why is Donald Trump campaigning in California, a state he’s almost certain to lose?
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• Doctor deems Harris in ‘excellent health.’ Her team aims to contrast with Trump’s scant medical info
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• 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!🎨
  First Friday at CruzioWorks! Get ready to immerse yourself in a vibrant evening…
• Black-footed Cats
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• Hidden Fortress Opens Cafe at Cruzioworks
  Amelia and her staff are super friendly and they serve great food Hidden Fortres…
• Cruzio Got a Grant. What That Means for You
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• Cruzio Rides the Giant Dipper (and More)
  At the end of June Cruzio took a well-deserved break and visited the Santa Cruz…
• Federal Internet Subsidies are Gone — But We’re Still Helping
  Students benefit from good internet at a center in Pajaro Valley Cruzio’s goal i…
• SCLU Takes the Win at the Memorial Day Surf Contest
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• Equal Access in Watsonville, CA
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• Newsletter #218
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• Trump Hits Coachella, Campaigning Once Again in a Blue State
  The former president took a detour from the battleground states to hold a rally…
• Texas Man Drops Suit Against Women Who Helped Ex-Wife Get Abortion Pills
  The suit had accused the three women of wrongful death. It was part of a heated…
• How South Korea’s Dogs Became Members of the Family
  They have become pampered family members in South Korea, which has the world’s l…
• Boot Found at Everest Could Be From Sandy Irvine, Who Vanished 100 Years Ago
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• Why These Americans Want to Be Mexican Citizens
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• Israeli Strikes on Northern Gaza Kill at Least 20, Aid Workers Say
  Israel’s military said it was “operating with great force” against Hamas and all…
• Black Voters Drift From Democrats, Imperiling Harris’s Bid, Poll Shows
  Vice President Kamala Harris is on track to win a majority of Black voters, and…
• “Podcrushed” Tweaks the Celebrity Podcast Format
  In a podcast landscape where famous people are always talking to each other, “Po…
• Biden Declares Disaster From Milton Ahead of Florida Visit
  The president will visit communities ravaged by Hurricane Milton on Sunday. The…
• This Is Why Trump Imagines He Will Win
  The way he is now running is the best window we have into what kind of president…

• Harris puts pressure on Trump over medical records
  The Democratic Party’s presidential nominee accuses her Republican rival of a la…
• Can illegal immigrants really vote in the US election?
  It is illegal for non-citizens to vote in the US election – but Donald Trump has…
• Closure for family as body found 56 years after India plane crash
  In 1968, an Indian Air Force plane with 102 people went missing. For many years,…
• Ukrainian journalist, 27, who chronicled Russian occupation dies in prison
  Viktoriia Roshchyna had been detained last year while reporting in Russian-occup…
• Denzel Washington's children join forces in 'fearless' film
  Malcolm Washington directs The Piano Lesson, which his brother John David Washin…
• Key moments of Alex Salmond's life and career… in 107 seconds
  A look back at some of the key moments from the life and career of former Scotti…
• Inside Israel's combat zone in southern Lebanon
  The BBC’s Lucy Williamson travels with the Israeli military to a village destroy…
• Fifth peacekeeper wounded in southern Lebanon, UN says
  The UN said a peacekeeper in the city of Naquora was injured on Friday amid “mil…
• Poland to temporarily suspend right to asylum, PM Tusk says
  Donald Tusk said Russia and Belarus were encouraging migration into Poland in a…
• International arrest warrant for rugby star Rocky Elsom
  The ex-Wallabies captain was given a five-year sentence for embezzlement in Fran…

• Central Fire to pay out nearly $1 million in firefighters’ brawl
  Central Fire District agreed to pay nearly $1 million in a civil suit brought by…
• Capitola City Council aims for Capitola Mall redevelopment
  The Capitola City Council recently discussed potential incentives for developers…
• Santa Cruz Local Election Guide launches
    SANTA CRUZ >> Ballots for the Nov. 5 election are expected to be mailed this w…
• Santa Cruz County supervisors to weigh ban on filtered cigarette sales
  Santa Cruz County Supervisor Justin Cummings has proposed a cigarette filter ban…
• Would Measure N demolish a Live Oak senior center for teacher housing?
  Live Oak School District owns the Elena Baskin Live Oak Senior Center. (Grace St…
• Architects describe 6-story apartment proposal on Mission St. in Santa Cruz
  A housing proposal on the 1800 block of Mission Street in Santa Cruz grew from t…
• Five picks for Santa Cruz First Friday Oct. 4
  The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History will offer free admission to its newest…
• 161 homes proposed on Graham Hill Road near Scotts Valley
  A proposed development on Graham Hill Road would include 117 single-family homes…
• Rats, high rents plague UC-owned Hilltop Apartments in Santa Cruz
  Residents at the UC-owned, 168-unit Hilltop Apartments on Western Drive in Santa…
• What triggers a homeless camp sweep in Santa Cruz County?
  A tent camp floods at the benchlands of San Lorenzo Park in Santa Cruz in Decemb…

• Your Ballot Is in the Mail: It's Democracy Week 2024
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• Doing Good: The League of Women Voters
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• The Attack on the Popular Vote
  In more than 30 states, it’s harder than ever to vote this year. But in Californ…
• Doing Good: Soroptimist International
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• The Changing Nature of Doing Good
  The legacy of ‘service clubs’ such as Soroptomists and Rotary lives on in a new…
• A History of Mutual Aid
  Volunteering and looking out for one another is central to community life.
• How We Helped Create a National Monument
  A spectacular piece of land north of Santa Cruz shows what a determined group of…
• A Collective, Monumental Effort
  The Cotoni Coast Dairies National Monument, just north of Santa Cruz, brought a…
• Dams and Reservoirs: Up and Down
  California’s first big reservoir project in decades is underway, as the state fi…
• The Ups and Downs of California Dams
  We check in on efforts to raise some dams in the state to store more water, and…

• North Carolina Maker of High-Purity Quartz Back Operating After Hurricane
  Thursday the Associated Press reported: One of the two companies that manufactur…
• California Newspaper Creates AI-Powered 'News Assistant' for Kamala Harris Info
  After nearly 30 years of covering Kamala Harris, the San Francisco Chronicle is…
• Microsoft's Take On Kernel Access and Safe Deployment After CrowdStrike Incident
  wiredmikey writes: As the dust settles following the massive Windows BSOD tech o…
• Who's Winning America's 'Tech War' With China?
  In mid-2021 Ameria’s National Security Advisor set up a new directorate focused…
• The Radio-Obsessed Civilian Shaping Ukraine's Drone Defense
  Former Ukranian officer Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov created a Signal channel wher…
• AI Disclaimers in Political Ads Backfire on Candidates, Study Finds
  Many U.S. states now require candidates to disclose when political ads used gene…
• Halcyon Announces Anti-Ransomware Protection for Enterprise Linux Environments
  Formed in 2021 by cybersecurity professionals (and backed by high-powered VCs in…
• Amazon Expands Same-Day Prescription Delivery to Nearly Half the US Next Year
  Amazon is “embedding pharmacies in same-day delivery facilities often clustered…
• 'Running Clang in the Browser Using WebAssembly'
  This week (MIT-licensed) WebAssembly runtime Wasmer announced “a major milestone…
• Boeing Plans to Cut 17,000 Jobs – 10% of Its Workforce
  “Boeing said Friday it will cull 10 percent of its workforce — roughly 17,000 jo…

• Your Ballot Is in the Mail: It's Democracy Week 2024
  As voters receive their ballots for the 2024 presidential election and important…
• Doing Good: The League of Women Voters
  The decades of work to win the right to vote for women was only the beginning.
• The Attack on the Popular Vote
  In more than 30 states, it’s harder than ever to vote this year. But in Californ…
• Doing Good: Soroptimist International
  Making a better world for women and preparing women to make a better world.
• The Changing Nature of Doing Good
  The legacy of ‘service clubs’ such as Soroptomists and Rotary lives on in a new…
• A History of Mutual Aid
  Volunteering and looking out for one another is central to community life.
• How We Helped Create a National Monument
  A spectacular piece of land north of Santa Cruz shows what a determined group of…
• A Collective, Monumental Effort
  The Cotoni Coast Dairies National Monument, just north of Santa Cruz, brought a…
• Dams and Reservoirs: Up and Down
  California’s first big reservoir project in decades is underway, as the state fi…
• The Ups and Downs of California Dams
  We check in on efforts to raise some dams in the state to store more water, and…

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