Aubrey Graves leans through a doorway surrounded by colorful graffiti at the White Lady’s House in 1999.

Haunting Santa Cruz

From unsettling nights at Brookdale Lodge to neighborhood ghost stories, author Aubrey Graves explores more than 100 locations in Supernatural Santa Cruz: The Ultima
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Potential Medi-Cal coverage losses, Watsonville Hospital’s financial challenges and funding for a new Big Basin visitor attraction lead this week’s local news roundup.
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Fortifying the Blue Wall

Measure D would expand Santa Cruz County’s coastal protections, giving voters a say over new onshore infrastructure supporting offshore drilling and seabed mining.
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County Building Shut Down: Mysterious White Powder Found

The Santa Cruz County Governmental Center on Ocean Street in Santa Cruz was evacuated Friday morning—along with the adjacent Superior Courthouse—after a suspicious white...
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Lightning Struck

Sleepbomb brings a live psychedelic and post-doom score to the 1931 Frankenstein at the Rio Theatre, inviting fresh sympathy for its misunderstood creature.
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Monster Mash

UCSC’s Festival of Monsters returns Oct. 14–18 with horror scholarship, authors, comics and free public events exploring the language of monstrosity.
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News Briefs

Santa Cruz County updates include road closures, library voter services, Capitola’s corridor plan, Watsonville planning, Medi-Cal renewal help and poet laureate applications.
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Crimson Roars in the Redwoods

King Crimson classics, guitar wizardry and a Zappa encore echoed through the redwoods as Terry Bozzio joined Adrian Belew, Steve Vai and Tony Levin for BEAT’s tour opener at UCSC’s Quarry Amphitheater.
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Vote Hope

A Romero Institute town hall brings Santa Cruz leaders and activists together to discuss voting rights, civic courage and the power of community participation.
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There and Back Again

UC Santa Cruz student Oliver Levine paddles 48 miles across Monterey Bay and back, navigating darkness, bioluminescence and self-doubt on a 12-foot board without a support boat.
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NEWS BRIEFS

This week’s local updates cover early voting, Highway 1 and Highway 9 traffic delays, utility autopay changes, county budget concerns, Watsonville Hospital and Monterey Bay humpbacks.
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The Art of Carrying On

Family, memory and collective strength shape Cabrillo Gallery’s LatinXperiencia 2026: La Resiliencia, bringing together 24 artists exploring what sustains us through upheaval and change.
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Season of Ice

Santa Cruz writers and artists join a chorus of resistance in Winter in America (Still, a new anthology exploring political turmoil, grief and the possibilities of community.
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