Santa Cruz Weekly News
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14.9K20E-scooter Wars Hit Santa Cruz With Bird’s Surprise Launch
Electric scooter startup Bird makes local debut without telling city officials
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5.2K1Closure of Second Story Worries Local Mental-Health Advocates
Santa Cruz to lose only alternative to inpatient psychiatric hospitalization
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8.9K7Santa Cruz Indivisible Sets Sights on Unseating Nunes
Local Democrats make a push in the Central Valley amid nationwide 'Blue Wave' campaign
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8.5K1Digital NEST’s New Plan to Link Watsonville, Silicon Valley
Inaugural NEST Flight conference will promote hiring diversity and local talent
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10.7K14Fight Over Rent Control, Evictions Comes to Santa Cruz
A battle brews over Measure M and a vision for Santa Cruz
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4.2K1The Price of Parking: 600-Space Downtown Project Faces New Scrutiny
A former planning consultant raises alarm as officials look to other communities for examples
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7.5K5Answers on Santa Cruz’s library and parking structure project
Getting to the bottom of the debate over downtown parking
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4.8KKSQD Launching Soon, But Will Miss Sept. 1 Target
New public radio station plans “kaleidoscope of Santa Cruz County”
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4.8K4Capitola’s Trestle Mania and Other Big Ballot Measures
Political battles are brewing over rail trail, rent control and financial oversight
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17.8K24KSCO Fires Liberal Radio Hosts, Lets Conservatives Run Wild
Georgia “Peach” Beardslee is still spreading lies and talking about “white genocide”
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3.5KPleasure Point’s Modern Life Home & Garden to Close After 33 Years
Online competition and a generational divide hit the furniture business
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3.4KSanta Cruz Tech Beat’s Sara Isenberg Connects the Dots
Five years in, the tech-oriented news site is decoding the latest scuttlebutt
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4.9K1No One Thought They Could Be Independent — Now, They’re Thriving
With farm-to-table dinner, Santa Cruz Camphill celebrates 20 years
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12.2KShipwreck Spills 200 Gallons of Diesel near Natural Bridges
A fishing boat ran aground early Sunday, spurring a scramble to contain leaks
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4.2K1Scotts Valley Council Veteran on Change, Sexism and the LSD Years
Donna Lind reflects on 50 years with the city
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5.3KHomeless Advocates Scramble as Limbo Looms for River Street Camp
City will miss self-imposed Aug. 14 deadline for decision on Harvey West encampment
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8.5KCounty Board Approves Affordable Housing Measure for Ballot
With policymaker blessing, housing advocates have three months to sell bond measure
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5.9KHow is Santa Cruz California’s second-poorest county?
A Q&A with the co-author of a new report that looks beyond the poverty line
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2.8K1How Stoned Is Too Stoned to Drive?
Law enforcement awaits state guidance on measuring impairment
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3.5K1Soquel Creek Water District Won’t Wait for Anyone
Mid-county district’s recycled water EIR is out, as regional talks continue
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6.1K1#NoAmazonAugust: So Crazy It Just Might Work?
Boulder Creek man makes case for an international boycott of Amazon
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2.8K1Nonprofit Leader on Proposed Capitola Tourism Tax Hike, Funding Kids’ Programs
Community Bridges’ Ray Cancino questions pensions and tax on visitor lodging
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4.2KWater Tech Founder Buoys Santa Cruz Startup Scene
Tired of Silicon Valley, Keri Waters made a career starting companies tailored to life in her adopted hometown
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3.1KSanta Cruz City Council Race Heats Up with Three New Entrants
A crowded Santa Cruz race shows no sign of thinning.
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3.9K6Greenway Sues RTC Over Coastal Rail Agreement
Environmental group says transit agency is undermining public process
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2.6KCapitola’s New TOT Tax Strategy
One of three local cities putting transient occupancy tax measures on November ballot
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37.6K5Santa Cruz Church to Open Brew Pub in Old Logos Building
Progressive-minded Greater Purpose Community Church says booze and Jesus go together
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5.9KBeauty, Tragedy and Meaning in America’s Southwest
Journalist Annette McGivney’s book ‘Pure Land’ intertwines true crime and investigative reporting with memories of personal trauma
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2.2KStone Bill Protecting Groves and Monarchs a Big Hit
Assemblymember’s $3 million bill preserving and restoring habitat for pollinators is breezing through the legislature
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5.7K3Maria Cadenas Wants the Economy to Work for Everyone
Preaching equity, Santa Cruz Community Ventures pitches impact investments and worker-owned businesses
