Since May 21, the Midtown Fridays Block Party has brought fresh life into the parking lot located at 1111 Soquel Ave.,…
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Morning Lookout: YIMBY tour of downtown, comedy festival to relieve late-summer anxiety
Kaiser Permanente Family Medicine Physician Dr. Jack Watson, MD, is passionate about getting more young people in Santa…
LA Times photographer captures the devastation of the Dixie fire
The second-largest California wildfire has burned more than 500,000 acres. See the remains through the smoke and ash.
Morning Lookout: Possible vaccine rule for school staff; still rebuilding a year after wildfire
Centered on creating beautiful, meaningful experiences out of flea market finds, Lori Powell’s thriving Santa Cruz…
‘This is not sustainable’: California hospitals filling again as Delta variant rages
The state has seen its total number of hospitalized coronavirus-positive patients swell from 2,981 on July 25 to 5,973 as of Sunday. “Very few of us are going to get out [of the pandemic] without either getting COVID illness or getting vaccinated,” one doctor says. “And, clearly, getting vaccinated is the safer, healthier way for us to go.”
Unscheduled power outages leave Corralitos customers frustrated, concerned with PG&E
The second outage in nearly two weeks was particularly worrisome with fire season in full effect in Santa Cruz County. “If there had been a fire, none of us would have known until the smoke was on us,” one Eureka Canyon resident said.
Morning Lookout: Affordability and YIMBYism, 2 new COVID deaths
The social and economic health of Santa Cruz County depends on the empowerment that comes when everyone has a place to…
After getting ‘spooked’ by stranger, woman drives off cliff near Lighthouse Point
A woman accidentally launched her sedan over a 30-foot cliff on West Cliff Drive but survived after her car landed on a ledge.
Morning Lookout: Dixie fire blazes as new UN report declares ‘code red,’ saying goodbye to Fred Reiss
Since May 21, the Midtown Fridays Block Party has brought fresh life into the parking lot located at 1111 Soquel Ave.,…
Can California reduce dairy methane emissions equitably?
State officials say dairy digesters can reduce greenhouse gas and toxic air emissions from large dairies. Why community activists don’t believe them.

