Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeats Republican Herschel Walker, a Trump endorsee, in the Senate runoff election in Georgia.
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Morning Lookout: Inside restaurant service fees, public works’ new leader and COVID cases jump
Donna Meyers has spent four years on the Santa Cruz City Council and takes issue with a recent Lookout piece by Cyndi…
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Going, going, gone: Feds hold first-ever auction for California offshore wind leases
Desalination, the process of filtering seawater into clean drinking water, has had a rocky past in Santa Cruz. However,…
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Morning Lookout: Fentanyl stalks drug-use concerns, ‘groundbreaking’ water policy and new eateries
Restaurants Honey B Market, Mad Yolks and Alderwood Pacific all plan to open in downtown Santa Cruz in December. In…
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Senior citizens hit hard as COVID-19 surges across California
Hospitalizations among those 70 and older have surpassed the summer peak. Coronavirus cases for all age groups are up nearly 50% in just one week.
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Fast food industry pushes to halt AB 257, a California law that could raise worker wages
Backers say they have submitted more than enough for a ballot measure to overturn the law, which could boost the minimum wage for franchise restaurant workers as high as $22 next year. A labor group alleges signatures were obtained fraudulently.
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Sunday Reads: West Cliff’s troubling future and a call to ocean action
For the second year, Lookout is working to highlight regular folks who are working hard behind the scenes to make Santa…
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Whither West Cliff? Recent collapse of path along ‘Santa Cruz’s front porch’ suggests troubling future
The West Cliff Drive we know today — Santa Cruz’s “front porch,” a surfing mecca and the site for a procession of multimillion-dollar homes/objects of envy that represent the Sunset magazine ideal of the California Good Life — is a shockingly recent development. Coastline erosion has been an ongoing constant, consistent over decades and centuries — but now we humans are adding a new wrinkle: climate change.
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Morning Lookout: Your ideas on Cabrillo name change, lagoon project and Eaters Digest
If you enjoy panettone, the Italian Christmas bread, this time of year, find it freshly made at Emozioni Patisserie and…
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Student Lookout: Firefly Coffee, the Lighted Boat Parade and some holiday shopping recs
Local historian and longtime Cabrillo College instructor Sandy Lydon started working at the college 10 years after it…