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Time magazine named UC Santa Cruz biomolecular engineering assistant professor Karen Miga one of its 100 most...
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By Lily Belli
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Salmon fishermen are swimming downstream from northern California, Oregon, Washington and even Alaska to take advantage...
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Watsonville Community Hospital — which declared bankruptcy in December — is at risk of closure. To save the hospital, a...
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By Max Chun
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Though hospitalizations and deaths remain relatively low, the recent swell of COVID cases has health officials stressing...
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By Mark Conley
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Tyrone “Buck” Noe was a second-generation surfboard shaper in Santa Cruz who followed in the footsteps of his father,...
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Source: Los Angeles Times
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Another bummer coronavirus summer for California? With cases on the rise, the state finds itself in a familiar, if...
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Source: Los Angeles Times
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Overdoses claimed some 107,000 lives last year in the U.S. Public health advocates, researchers and activists want to...
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Through art and the man’s own writings, “Freak Power” chronicles famous bad-boy journalist Hunter S. Thompson’s 1970 run...
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By Manu Koenig
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Measure D is giving us all a headache. Part of the problem is perspective, 1st District Santa Cruz County Supervisor...
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By Mark Conley
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The candidates for the newly created State Assembly District 28, who spoke at a Lookout-moderated forum last week,...
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By Lily Belli
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Chicago native Charlie Funk brings classics from the Windy City to Santa Cruz with his Funk’s Franks food truck, glass...
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May is here, and it’s the perfect time of year to enjoy some new bike routes — and the snacks along the way. Consider...
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The Santa Cruz Symphony presents the Frans Lanting/Philip Glass collaboration “Life: A Journey Through Time” at the same...
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By Mark Conley
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While Assembly District 30 contenders spent much of their time showing that they know this place where none of them...
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By Ann Lopez, Rebecca Garcia, Vanessa Quiroz-Carter, Gina Gallino Cole and Natalie Olivas
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Measure D is inequitable and environmentally short-sighted. We believe Measure D will forever cut off North County and...
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By Nancy Yellin, Buzz Anderson, Nadene Thorne and Robert Stephens
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Measure D is the best chance Santa Cruz County has to build a safe and transit-oriented trail from Watsonville to...
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As four new housing projects — aiming to add 185 units around lower Pacific Avenue and Front Street — begin to take...
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By Max Chun
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Proponents view the measure as an opportunity to use Santa Cruz County’s large tourism revenue stream to fund essential...
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Suddenly rising interest rates have thrown a new wrench into the plans of prospective home buyers. Can it get any worse?...
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Project Roomkey provided shelter to more than 1,000 people in Santa Cruz County as a response to pandemic homeless...
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By Lily Belli
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Get ready for odd-shaped wine bottles, higher prices — and maybe more reusable bottles, like Sones Cellars has pioneered...
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The pandemic-driven surge in popularity has highlighted the lack of skating infrastructure in Santa Cruz County,...
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By Peggy Flynn
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Peggy Flynn had an abortion in the 1980s, when she was in her 20s and single. She never told her family. She has also...
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By Max Chun
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Some see the potential change as a means for leadership that represents the whole community in a four-year mayor; others...
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Bob Dylan rolls into Santa Cruz on June 23, with the soon-to-be-81-year-old bringing his “Rough and Rowdy Ways” tour to...
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