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It’s been a harrowing week in the county, as flooding in Capitola and Pajaro Valley has joined with wind damage in the mountains and wharf evacuations. And more rain is on the way in this most unusual of Januaries. Our whole Lookout team of 15 has been working around the clock to keep you informed, with our Santa Cruz County Storm Central the literal center of our reporting.

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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...