Santa Cruz Weekly News
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12.4K1Dyane Harwood on Recovering from Postpartum Bipolar
New author will speak in Ben Lomond about depression, and how it affects young mothers
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6.9KSenderos Offers Youth a Promising Path Forward
After-school program gives dance lessons, scholarships and fresh opportunity
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6.7K8Can Santa Cruz Build Its Way Out Of a Housing Crisis?
We examine affordability requirements as mayor’s year of housing wraps up
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4.3KWith Retail in Trouble, Experts Ponder What’s Best for Business
Small Business Saturday launches on Nov. 25, and a new retail outreach effort targets struggling shops
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3.5KSanta Cruz Nonprofits Save and Transform Animals’ Lives
UnChained and Heading Home raise awareness as part of annual Santa Cruz Gives campaign
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5.2K2Santa Cruz Cuts Women’s Self-Defense Classes
With sexual assault grabbing headlines, women’s rights supporters question commission’s vote
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3.8K1After San Lorenzo Park Clean-up, Questions Over What’s Next
The city and county agree on the framework helping the homeless, but the details get tricky
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4.1K1Wallace Baine Leaving Sentinel After 26 Years
Arts editor feels overwhelmed by support, adding that “The writing was on the wall”
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5.4KGo Green Cab’s Uncertain Future
As a biodiesel station closes, an environmental taxi company faces yet another challenge
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11.4K10As Eucalyptus Monarch Grove Ages, Butterflies Face Risks
A parasite is ravaging west coast monarch butterflies, and some gardeners aren’t helping
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4.8KHolistic Veterans Event Promotes Breathing to Heal
Michael Brian Baker will lead a breathwork session at the 2017 Community Healing Project
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5.2KChris Sharma on his Ascent to Climbing’s Top Athlete
The Santa Cruz native stars in film at the Rio, about his deep water soloing adventures
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4.7KHousing Authority’s New Tools For Struggling Renters
New Landlord Incentive Program will co-sign for Section 8 voucher holders
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4.2K2Black Market Cannabis: How Hard Should Officers Crack Down?
Some counties seeking DEA help, as California prepares for a legalized marketplace
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10.1K3Longtime Booker Tom Miller Leaves Don Quixote’s
Amid shakeups on the local music venue scene, Miller has started booking shows at Michael's on Main
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6.0KPossible Redesigns for Live Oak, Aptos, Soquel, with Denser Housing
As Santa Cruz debates rezoning, county leaders have big development plans of their own
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8.2K1FishWise Pushes for “Traceability” in Seafood Industry
Local nonprofit has an answer for a field troubled by illegal fishing and human tracking
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6.8K2Affordable Housing Week: Report Details Crisis for Renters
A forthcoming report out of UCSC shows distress in county’s low-income communities
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7.8K9Rent Control for Santa Cruz?
As rents soar, advocates from Lower Ocean try to get a handle on the problem
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7.2K2Santa Cruz Considers Loosening Affordable Housing Rules
Makeup of the city’s future units called into question, as Affordable Housing Week kicks off
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3.8KRecord-Breaking Paddle Out Might Not Have Broken Record
Politics and rivalry lie beneath the surface of an attempt to recognize a paddle in Jack O’Neill’s honor
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4.6KImmigration Expert Ali Noorani to Speak at Allterra Solar
Santa Cruz native says says the left isn’t moving the dialogue forward
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14.3K3The Story Behind Recent Santa Cruz Business Closures
Now that Caffe Pergolesi and others have shut their doors, locals wonder if Santa Cruz will ever be the same
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2.9KLocal Watchdog Looks Out For Health of Laurel Creek
Impassioned environmentalist questions construction pollution in Laurel Creek
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3.9K1Freedom Within Prison Project Provides Support to Incarcerated
Oct. 7 Fundraiser at MAH will help the nonprofit expand its initiatives
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5.6K3Santa Cruz Mayor Chimes in on ICE Raids in Sanctuary Cities
ICE raids target sanctuary cities nationwide, including around the Bay Area
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5.2K2Cannabis EIR Promises Boon and Offers Light Regulations
The draft environmental document predicts 7,100 new jobs in the local industry
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8.8K6The Troubling Thing About the AJ Gonzalez Case
Also: a conservative radio station owner responds to controversy, this week in briefs
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4.9K1Health Officials Analyze and Respond to Hepatitis A Outbreak
As crews scrub city streets, a health officer says the statewide spread shows something “surprising”
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6.9K2KSCO Owner Calls BS on Talk Show Co-Host
Michael Zwerling reflects on talk station’s misinformation, its financial struggles and the ‘wingnuts’ who are tuning in
