Morning Lookout

Good morning, Lookout friends! Today is Monday, May 9, and the forecast calls for a mostly sunny day around Santa Cruz County, with highs in the upper 50s and low 60s. Downtown Santa Cruz is the focus this morning, the mixed-use library project in particular. The long-planned development has been on track to start construction […]

Hiya, folks! Today is Friday, May 6, and, peekaboo marine layer willing, we’ve got a nice one on our hands around Santa Cruz County, mostly sunny and with highs from the mid-60s into the 70s. Journalism veterans are well aware of the Friday news dump, when agencies or businesses try to bury what would otherwise […]

Top of the morning to you, Santa Cruz County! It’s Thursday, May 5, and the marine layer will be around much of the day, with temps in the 60s and 70s as the sun peeks out later on. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve seen and heard plenty about Measure D, set to […]

Hello, Lookout friends! Today is Wednesday, May 4, and we’ve got another mostly sunny day ahead, with highs in the 70s and 80s around Santa Cruz County. Much to get to this morning: More than 200 Santa Cruzans turned out on short notice yesterday afternoon to protest the Supreme Court’s seemingly inevitable move to outlaw […]

Good morning, folks. Today is Tuesday, May 3, and it’ll be a mainly sunny day around Santa Cruz County, with highs approaching 80 in some spots. We’re hitting you with some numbers off the top today, namely the 13,000 housing units the state wants our county to build by 2031. Grace Stetson talked to local […]

Hello, Lookout friends! It’s Monday, May 2, and the forecast calls for a mostly sunny start to the workweek in Santa Cruz County, with highs in the 60s amid some gusty winds — and there’s a warmup coming the next few days. Those warmer temps might put you in the mood for a cool cocktail, […]

Gooooooooood morning Santa Cruz County! It’s Friday, April 29, and we’ve got a nice day ahead of us, mostly sunny with temps in the 70s, and more of the same on tap for the weekend. I’ve got some fun stories for you this morning, starting with Mother Nature’s lawnmowers. We’ve seen them at Neary Lagoon, […]

Hiya, folks! It’s Thursday, April 28, and a mostly sunny day is ahead for Santa Cruz County, breezy in some spots and with highs in the 60s. It’s a big day here at Lookout as we launch Community Voices, our opinion section for the many challenges of the 2020s. Here’s the overview from Lookout founder […]

Top of the morning, Lookout friends! It’s Wednesday, April 27, and Santa Cruz County is headed for a partly cloudy day, with winds picking up in the p.m. hours and temperatures in the 60s. We’re starting the morning with Part 3 of “Poisoned,” our series on the fentanyl epidemic and its toll on our community, […]

A good day to you, Santa Cruz County! It’s Tuesday, April 26, and morning clouds are forecast to give way to afternoon sunshine, with highs in the mid- to upper 60s. On the heels of the first part of our “Poisoned” series on the rising local fentanyl epidemic, county officials held a virtual town hall […]