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  Hospice of Santa Cruz County merged with a Florida-based nonprofit last year. (Amaya Edwards — Santa Cruz Loca…
• Watsonville Hospital to hold community meeting amid potential closure of maternity services
  Watsonville Community Hospital board members listen during a meeting on Mar. 25. (Amaya Edwards — Santa Cruz L…
• Meet your candidates running for PVUSD Board of Trustees
  There are four board of trustee seats open in the Nov. 3 general election for Pajaro Valley Unified School Dis…
• Santa Cruz County campaign spending: Four takeaways
  Ryan Coonerty, candidate for Santa Cruz mayor, outspent opponent Ami Chen Mills more than five-fold in the Jun…
• Introducing the candidates for Capitola City Council
  The candidates running for Capitola City Council from left to right: Joe Clarke, Cami Corvin, Tory Del Favero,…
• PVUSD Superintendent Heather Contreras confirmed to leave for San Luis Obispo
  Pajaro Valley Unified School District Superintendent Heather Contreras speaks during her State of the District…
• San Lorenzo Valley residents prepare for impacts from El Niño
  The San Lorenzo River runs under the Felton Covered Bridge in Felton on Sept. 24. (Amaya Edwards – Santa Cruz…
• Watsonville residents share priorities for local leaders: ‘Everything is so expensive’
  A listening session at Raíces y Cariño in July connected Noticias Watsonville with residents, who shared their…
• 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…

• The Big Truth
  Here’s proof that our elections are not rigged, and an Explainer you can send to…
• The News: October 12, 2026
  The election is 3 weeks away! Ballots are moving back and forth via U.S. Post! N…
• 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…

• 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…

• France Officials Acknowledge ‘Failure’ Around Riots
  The interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, acknowledged that the police had been unde…
• New York City Has a Rat Killing Machine
  Are the humans winning? That’s hard to say. But we certainly have a technologica…
• To Find Criminals and Child Exploitation in Gold Mines, We Just Had to Look
  Layers of people certify that gold is free from rights abuses and criminality. N…
• How a Trillion-Dollar Industry Launders Illegal Gold
  The line between dirty and clean gold is an industry fiction. Wall Street and go…
• A Bad Combination
  We take a look at the human face of America’s utility bill crisis.
• France’s Far Right Seizes the Moment as Rioting Stuns the Country
  The National Rally, already ahead in the polls, presented itself as the party be…
• Israel’s High-Stakes Election, and How Illegal Gold Is Getting Into the Global Market
  Plus, the search for “superhabitable” planets.
• Ukraine Uses F-16s to Shoot Down Russia’s Jet-Powered Drones
  The fighters are a key tool against Moscow’s latest weapon of choice. But deploy…
• Ellie Kemper: Nora Ephron Wrote to Amuse Herself
  The actress and comedian riffs on the essay Nora Ephron wrote for The Times in 2…
• Who’s Winning the Race for Congress?
  It’s Oct. 19 — 15 days from the midterms. Here’s the state of play.

• Personal attacks fire up debate before Brazil's run-off vote
  The race heats up just days before the run-off between the left-wing incumbent a…
• Italian PM Meloni to hold emergency meeting after weekend of violent clashes
  More than 200 people were detained during two days of rioting in the city, Itali…
• Kenya pastor accused of ordering parents to starve their children to death faces verdict
  Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie faces 191 murder charges – all but one of…
• Deadly fire at Canada military base moved a kilometre 'in 30 to 60 seconds'
  The blaze that killed four men and injured dozens of others spread with alarming…
• Musk and Anthropic pledge public share giveaways
  Musk’s announcement comes after Anthropic pledged to create a public benefit fun…
• Alberta heads to polls to decide whether to hold vote on separation from Canada
  Polling suggests most Albertans favour remaining part of the country, although t…
• Possible wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane likely to be trees, say researchers
  Researchers travelled to a remote Pacific Island to confirm whether an object fi…
• Bangladesh says it was not informed of its citizens' execution by Saudi Arabia
  Saudi Arabia said it executed two Bangladeshis last week for committing an “inde…
• Katya Adler: France's government under pressure after weekend of widespread violence
  Political tension grips France after rioting marred protests over the cost of li…
• Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff survives shooting attempt in Mumbai
  Videos showed gunmen firing shots at Shroff’s car while it was moving slowly pas…

• America Tries Reviving Shuttered Nuclear Plants – Partly to Help Power Data Centers
  America is “making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear pl…
• Mozilla is Calling Out Microsoft for Forcing Edge on Users
  “Mozilla reps tell me they’ve met with Microsoft about their concerns,” reports…
• Anthropic Announces 'Public Benefit Fund', Committing 5% of Its Shares
  “Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’,” re…
• 'Human Vs. Robot' Cage Match Was Illegal, Says California
  “A human defeated two of the three robots he faced in a cage fight recently held…
• New Video Game Law Proposed: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It'
  “When you pay for a game, you should own it,” says U.S. Representative Ritchie T…
• Planned UK Data Center Delayed Until 2030s Over Power Grid Delays. Microsoft Pulls Out
  July: Nvidia-backed Nscale is building a £2bn data centre at Loughton in Essex,…
• Researchers Discover How To Lead Dying Coral Reefs To a 'Fast And Full Recovery'
  Gizmodo reports: Roughly 84.4% of the world’s coral reefs suffered bleaching-lev…
• Websites Are Closing Their Doors to AI Agents
  The Verge reports: OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agen…
• More Details on Arrested Saudi OpenAI Employee, Who is Seeking Release on Bail
  More details are emerging about Saudi OpenAI employee Abdulrahman Alfozan, who w…
• LinkedIn Fights AI Slop, Now 40% of Its Long-Form Posts
  “Even LinkedIn is getting tired of your AI-written posts,” writes CNN, reporting…

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