Portion of Santa Cruz Wharf collapses, harbor damaged and parts …
Dec 30, 2024 · A section of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed Monday, plunging three construction workers into 25-foot swells. At least nine people were rescued countywide as authorities evacuated parts of Capitola Village and Rio Del Mar for flooding and closed several beaches because of dangerous conditions.
Event Calendar - Lookout Santa Cruz
Browse Lookout's Santa Cruz County public event calendar. This is your place to go for things to do in Santa Cruz County. Find all the concerts, plays, live music, pub crawls, family events, poetry slams, things to do with kids, things to do outdoors in and around Santa Cruz County and more.
Inspector seeks ‘full transparency’ on Santa Cruz County Jail deaths
Oct 29, 2024 · The first annual report of the Office of Inspector General, created after a state law was passed in 2021 that encouraged counties to create them in the wake of national scrutiny of policing after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, will be formally presented to the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The office has been run on a contracted basis by a Long Beach ...
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UC Santa Cruz exploring creation of medical school
Nov 22, 2024 · The problem exists statewide, as nearly four in 10 Californians live in a primary care shortage area, according to a philanthropic nonprofit focused on expanding health care, the California Health Care Foundation.. Larive said the benefits of a local medical school could extend beyond Santa Cruz County and help improve access to medical care across the entire Monterey Bay region, particularly ...
Watsonville forming task force to tackle homelessness
Nov 20, 2024 · The City of Watsonville is calling for community members to participate in a task force designed to focus on the city’s homelessness issue. The task force will replace the series of community meetings held earlier this year to brainstorm solutions.
Lookout Santa Cruz wins Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
May 6, 2024 · We have incredible news to share. On Monday, the Pulitzer Prize jury gave its coveted “Breaking News Reporting” award to Lookout for our wall-to-wall coverage of Santa Cruz County’s catastrophic January 2023 floods. “For its detailed and nimble community-focused coverage, over a holiday weekend, of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced thousands of California residents and ...
4.2-magnitude earthquake hits near Watsonville
Sep 29, 2024 · The USGS’s site reports the quake as happening approximately 1.9 miles northwest of Aromas and 4.6 miles deep at 2:47 a.m. Santa Cruz County residents took to Facebook in the moments after quake to report feeling “two jolts” and a “good shake,” with others saying that they woke up with their bed or “whole house” shaking.
UCSC faculty mourn loss of feminist studies department
Dec 12, 2024 · “It’s devastating that that particular structure no longer works,” Schaeffer said. She emphasized that incoming students will continue to be able enroll in UCSC to earn an undergraduate degree in feminist studies, even after the department is dissolved on July 1, because there are still many faculty teaching enough feminist studies courses for students to earn credits for a degree. While ...
A Lookout View: Our Nov. 5 endorsements - Lookout Santa Cruz
Nov 2, 2024 · The Lookout Editorial Board writes endorsements because we believe a strong, trustworthy, independent and nonpartisan local news organization owes its community a stand-back, whole view of the candidates and measures before us, based on extensive one-on-one interviews. And, on your behalf, we look for four factors in making our recommendations: voting and other decision-making records ...