Watsonville hospital leaders consider maternity and NICU closures, a tire-derived chemical raises concerns in local creeks, and more vote centers prepare to open. Plus Halloween restrictions, winter shelter funding and other Santa Cruz County updates.
As AI unsettles career expectations, Santa Cruz County students are reconsidering their paths. Roz Spafford explores local enrollment trends, students’ concerns and why educators emphasize subject knowledge, collaboration and learning to adapt.
From pinball to midway prizes, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s High Score exhibit celebrates the Boardwalk’s gaming past. Vintage machines, archival surprises and playable favorites reveal how generations found fun and connection at the arcade.
From unsettling nights at Brookdale Lodge to neighborhood ghost stories, author Aubrey Graves explores more than 100 locations in Supernatural Santa Cruz: The Ultimate Edition
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.
Measure D would expand Santa Cruz County’s coastal protections, giving voters a say over new onshore infrastructure supporting offshore drilling and seabed mining.
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...
Sleepbomb brings a live psychedelic and post-doom score to the 1931 Frankenstein at the Rio Theatre, inviting fresh sympathy for its misunderstood creature.
UCSC’s Festival of Monsters returns Oct. 14–18 with horror scholarship, authors, comics and free public events exploring the language of monstrosity.
Santa Cruz County updates include road closures, library voter services, Capitola’s corridor plan, Watsonville planning, Medi-Cal renewal help and poet laureate applications.
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.
A Romero Institute town hall brings Santa Cruz leaders and activists together to discuss voting rights, civic courage and the power of community participation.
