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Storm Central keeps you updated as we watch, wait and assess. Check back here as Lookout correspondents reach out across...

As Santa Cruz County endures some of the worst series of storms in memory, our newsroom team of 10 is staying on top of the story. We’ll keep Storm Central (first story in the daily recap below) updated throughout Wednesday and the duration of the storm.

We’ll share the latest news on the storm’s impacts, road closures, flooding, outages and more. We’ll be in touch with the area’s emergency centers to bring you the latest, accurate information about what’s happening around us, and we’ll provide helpful charts to show you what we know, at a glance.

Find Storm Central and our preparation guide in the first two stories of the daily recap below.

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Wallace reports and writes not only across his familiar areas of deep interest — including arts, entertainment and culture — but also is chronicling for Lookout the challenges the people of Santa Cruz...

Max Chun is the general-assignment correspondent at Lookout Santa Cruz. Max’s position has pulled him in many different directions, seeing him cover development, COVID, the opioid crisis, labor, courts...

Follow Mark Conley on: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. Mark joins Lookout after 14 years at the Mercury News and Bay Area News Group, where he served as Deputy Sports Editor on a staff that covered three...

Tamsin is excited to bring her passion for local journalism to Santa Cruz. She comes to Lookout from The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper, where she oversaw the paper’s local daily news...

Over the past decade, Christopher Neely has built a diverse journalism résumé, spanning from the East Coast to Texas and, most recently, California’s Central Coast.Chris reported from Capitol Hill...

After three years of reporting on public safety in Iowa, Hillary joins Lookout Santa Cruz with a curious eye toward the county’s education beat. At the Iowa City Press-Citizen, she focused on how local...

A veteran jack-of-all-trades journalist who is Lookout’s copy editor, writes and compiles Morning Lookout newsletter and produces Lookout’s other editorial newsletters and helps run Lookout’s social...