A half-mile section of Highway 9 hasn’t seen two-way traffic since it was struck by a New Year’s Eve landslide. Crews will work to put finishing touches on repairs next week to fully reopen the key artery through the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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Morning Lookout: Harbor’s heroic dredge, Food Bin redevelopment and Aptos house fire
Images from space show the Sierra Nevada and Southern California mountain ranges beginning to shed their record snowpack…
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Striking before-and-after satellite photos show the start of the great California snowmelt
Images from space show the Sierra Nevada and Southern California mountain ranges beginning to shed their record snowpack as weather warms up.
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Santa Cruz is the only U.S. small-craft harbor with its own dredge — and it was a savior during winter storms
The crew manning the Santa Cruz Harbor dredge was tasked with keeping the harbor mouth clear from excessive storm debris this winter, at which they succeeded. But the harbor, just down the coast from the San Lorenzo River, requires more consistent dredging than most other harbors in the country.
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Morning Lookout: Possible town-gown deal on UCSC housing and enrollment; radical climate rethink
The 42,849-square-foot development would take over the parcel where local grocery stores The Food Bin and Herb Room…
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Federal court slows a California ban on natural gas appliances
A three-judge panel sided with the California Restaurant Association against a Berkeley policy that “prohibits the installation of natural gas piping within newly constructed buildings.”
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Fox News reaches $787 million settlement in Dominion defamation suit
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News avoids a potentially embarrassing trial with Dominion Voting Systems over its false reporting on allegations of 2020 election fraud. The Denver-based voting machine maker had been seeking $1.6 billion in damages.
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Morning Lookout: A Mission Street overhaul, housing mandates & a nonprofit leader
Isabelle Tuncer, executive director of nonprofit organization El Sistema Santa Cruz, spoke with Lookout about being…
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District 3 Supervisor Justin Cummings earned an influential statewide role in March when Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon…
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Morning Lookout: Monterey day trip, weekend recommendations & Student Lookout
Ben Lomond native turned Texan transplant Jesse Daniel plays a homecoming show Friday in support of his new live album,…