Sibley Simon, president of a nonprofit housing development company, is building 120 units of permanent supportive housing on the Housing Matters campus in Santa Cruz. It’s yet another step in his mission to achieve ‘functional zero’ on homelessness.
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Watsonville nursing home sued by family of resident who died during COVID-19 outbreak
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
An evacuee’s tale: ‘The truth is, being home is hard’
Journalist Amber Turpin was forced from her Ben Lomond home after the wildfires struck. Returning there hasn’t been what she’d thought, but there are finally rays of hope.
As ‘mudslides on steroids’ threaten, Santa Cruz Mountain dwellers ponder new normal
Santa Cruz Mountain residents are bracing for more evacuations because of debris flows this winter, with potentially no end in sight to annual cycles of wildfires and heavy rains.

