• Your Nov. 3 Santa Cruz County election guide is here
  Santa Cruz Local spoke with voters across the county about what they wanted to ask people running for office….
• PVUSD Superintendent Heather Contreras leaving for another role
  Superintendent of Pajaro Valley Unified School District, Heather Contreras, will leave her position once her c…
• Watsonville Hospital leaders say they must shutter their maternity ward or face imminent closure
  Watsonville Community Hospital has struggled to maintain fiscal sustainability. (Contributed) Pajaro Valley He…
• Greensite endorses Coonerty as he shifts his tone on ‘oversized’ housing
  Ryan Coonerty in an interview with Santa Cruz Local on Sept. 19. (Amaya Edwards — Santa Cruz Local/CatchLight…
• A candidate running for a PVUSD seat arrested for alleged fraud, but still on the ballot
  There are four open seats on the Pajaro Valley Unified School District board up for election on the Nov. 3 bal…
• Monitoring invasive beetles in Santa Cruz County
  Blake Shaw points out an invasive beetle’s bore hole. (Amaya Edwards — Santa Cruz Local/CatchLight Local) Help…
• Watsonville City Council approves new restrictions on Flock cameras
  The Watsonville City Council on Sept. 22 adopted tighter restrictions on the use of automated license plate re…
• Watsonville leaders to discuss Flock contract
  One of 37 Flock cameras in located across the City of Watsonville. (Amaya Edwards —Santa Cruz Local/CatchLight…
• Bracing for El Niño: County looks to better forecasting, more alerts, road work
  Part of Lank Tree Lane in Boulder Creek collapsed during heavy rain in February 2025. (Amaya Edwards — Santa C…
• Capitola council candidate concerned over indoctrination of children by pro-LGBTQ+ educators, governments
  Retired fire battalion chief and Capitola Planning Commissioner TJ Welch is running for Capitola City Council….

• Indigenous Californians Win some Big Battles
  Tribes throughout the state have reason to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day on…
• The News: October 5, 2026
  Voter guides and ballots are in the mail; The November 3 2026 California General…
• A Leak in the Midst of the AI Firehose
  As terror of A.I. grips the entire culture, we continue to take careful steps fo…
• The News: September 28, 2026
  We briefly examine the phenomena of porch geese; Local news continues local elec…
• Working With Robots
  Writing for robots is one thing; working with them is something else entirely.
• Why and How We Are Using A.I. to Do Journalism
  As we ramp up to launch our white-hat AI product, we review what Open AI knew ab…
• The News: September 21, 2026
  Local voters are unhappy about Flock automatic license plate cameras, data cente…
• Bad News for the News Industry
  McClatchy slashes newsrooms nationwide, including at its once-great flagship, th…
• The News: September 14, 2026
  The 25th anniversary of 9/11 is observed across the state; Local news is reporti…
• California Forever. Religious freedom now.
  Local opposition stalls the planned Delta city, while a former president speaks…

• Cruzio at the CPUC: What We Shared About Connecting San Jerardo
  On April 22, 2026, Cruzio had the opportunity to speak on a panel at a Californi…
• Cruzio celebrates completion of Equal Access Summits to the Sea project
  SANTA CRUZ- Cruzio Internet is celebrating the completion of their ambitious Equ…
• The Critters We See When We Build Infrastructure
  Out on the job, Cruzio’s top-notch tech crews encounter all sorts of animals. We…
• An Otterly Excellent Story
  As if you needed it, there’s another reason to love our local sea otters: they’r…
• Local Businesses & Giant Octopus Celebrate Cruzio’s 35th Birthday
  We edited this photo to look like a 1950s horror movie. But the tentacles were r…
• Giant Slugs & Giant Sloths — That’s So Santa Cruz
  In the Santa Cruz Mountains we’re used to getting slimed by banana slugs, which,…
• First Friday at Cruzio Featuring Liminal Space!
  Liminal Space Art Collective is a group of Santa Cruz artists building bridges a…
• Faster Internet Coming to Coastside San Mateo
  Earlier this year, the state of California awarded Cruzio $5.65 million to impro…
• 🎨 First Friday at CruzioWorks!🎨
  🎨 First Friday at CruzioWorks!🎨 Get ready to immerse yourself in a vibrant eveni…
• Black-footed Cats
  This cat looks a little like Cruzio Internet’s logo black-footed cats can be fou…

• He Left Behind Millions. Who Would Get It — His Family, or the D.S.A.?
  When a New York University professor died in 2024, it set off a legal dispute ov…
• Paxton Said in Deposition That Donor Gave Him Stocks to Please God
  The leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Sen…
• Trump Announces White House Inquiry Into Fed Governor Lisa Cook
  President Trump said the White House would investigate unsubstantiated claims th…
• Navi Pillay, South African Jurist, Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
  The choice drew condemnation from Israel over Ms. Pillay’s role leading a U.N. c…
• Trump Says He Will Import Russian Diesel Fuel Amid High Prices
  President Trump said Russia had agreed to ship potentially millions of tons of d…
• Senate Fact Finders Decry Costs of Immigrant Detention at Guantánamo
  The setup has cost more than $100 million, the study said. A recent inspection f…
• Attacker in FlyDubai Flight Meant to Crash Into Israeli Airport, Emiratis Say
  The attorney general of the United Arab Emirates said that the co-pilot had been…
• Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans.
  The 2028 election is on the ballot right now.
• Private Medicare Plans Are Raising Costs And Forcing Millions To Find New Insurance
  As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are conf…
• Mike Ditka, Fiery Coach of the Chicago Bears, Has Died
  He and the Bears won the Super Bowl in 1986, and after coaching he became one of…

• JD Vance casts doubt on firing squad execution and says he will not watch it
  The planned execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad would be the first military…
• Powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake hits Panama, damaging buildings
  Tsunami warnings are issued for neighbouring countries as videos of destruction…
• Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky criticises 'gift to Putin'
  Ukraine’s president said allowing Russia to sell petroleum products would prolon…
• Commentator Katie Zacharia picked as new White House press secretary
  The conservative commentator currently works as a communications adviser at Trum…
• Three men found guilty of murdering two Australian surfer brothers and US friend
  The bodies of Jake and Callum Robinson and their friend Carter Rhoad were found…
• Thai Queen makes first solo flight in fighter jet
  Thailand’s Queen Suthida made her first solo flight in a fighter jet, according…
• US unveils sanctions on ICC in move court condemns as 'assault on rule of law'
  Several member states of the international tribunal, including the UK, say they…
• Navi Pillay, former UN human rights chief, wins Nobel Peace Prize
  Pillay is recognised for her “efforts to promote peace and international law”, t…
• US immigration officials defend ICE agents who shot man in same car as child
  Oscar Belgal, the 28-year-old man, survived the shooting and is now being held a…
• Russian search engine Yandex struggles after Ukrainian strikes on data centres
  Often dubbed “Russia’s Google”, the tech firm admits customers may experience di…

• Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties In France
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Cloudflare doesn’t block…
• A 1960 Paper Published In Science Predicts World Will End Next Month
  sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: A physicist has put a defini…
• Apollo Software Pioneer Margaret Hamilton Dies at 90
  “Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of…
• First Thorium Nuclear Clocks Begin to Tick
  Researchers in Vienna and Beijing have independently built the first nuclear clo…
• US Bars Microsoft, Adobe, and Major IT Firms From Green Card Program
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The Trump administration is…
• Emmy Awards Leave Broadcast TV For Prime Video
  Amazon Prime Video will become the exclusive global home of the Emmy Awards unde…
• Female AI Agents 'Paid' Less Than Males, Study Finds
  Ancient Slashdot reader williamyf writes: If you thought the gender pay gap was…
• Chrome 155 Ships Decoding Support For JPEG XL
  Google has released Chrome 155 with support for decoding JPEG XL images, a forma…
• OpenAI Unleashes Hundreds More Math Results Upon a Field Already In Shock
  OpenAI says an unreleased internal model has produced 372 results that either re…
• Campus Censorship Wars, 25 Years After a Slashdot Q&A
  Slashdot reader carlk22 writes: In February 2001, Slashdot readers asked Carl Ka…

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