With UCSC resuming classes for the 2021-2022 school year in a few weeks, many incoming and returning students are finding themselves at a loss for housing options. As one returning student shared, “I can’t focus on my job, I can’t sleep — this is completely awful.”
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Training program seeks to shrink number of ‘spontaneous volunteers’ during wildfires, disasters
During wildfires and disasters, well-meaning but untrained “spontaneous volunteers” emerge to defend lives and property but the lack of training can sometimes mean they are putting themselves and others in danger. It’s a controversial issue but a nonprofit group has a middle-ground solution.
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All-out fight to save South Lake Tahoe as Caldor fire forces evacuation warnings
The Caldor fire has swelled past 143,000 acres and continues to burn toward South Lake Tahoe, where evacuation warnings have people on high alert. The blaze was only 12% contained as of Friday morning.
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Gray Davis: California recalls should be reformed, no matter Newsom’s fate
“Get rid of question No. 1 on the ballot, let everyone run in question No. 2 and make all the rules the same,” says Davis, who in 2003 became the only California governor to be recalled. “Just have one election, whoever wins gets to fill out the governor’s term.”
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Morning Lookout: ‘We will hunt you down and make you pay’
Recent UCSC graduate and Bay Federal Credit Union’s Certified Financial Educator, Tiffany Zachmeier, looks back at her…
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California lawmakers grapple with whether to impose a statewide COVID-19 vaccination mandate
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
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Californians can all vote by mail in the recall. Here’s how
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
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How you can help organizations in California working to resettle Afghan refugees
You can help Afghan refugees by donating money to or volunteering with organizations in California.
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Big Basin before and after CZU, through one local filmmaker’s eyes
The stark, straightforward “Big Basin Will Never Be The Same” uses side-by-side film of Eric Parson’s favorite trail run in Big Basin, one side shot before the 2020 blaze and one after, to sound an alarm about what our forests are facing.
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With recall looming, Newsom gets some help from friends in Legislature
Democratic leaders in the California Legislature shield Gov. Gavin Newsom from having to decide some controversial bills during the recall campaign.