1+ hour, 44+ min ago  (571+ words) A Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge has ruled that the City of Watsonville violated state law when it approved housing development near the Watsonville Municipal Airport without first adopting required airport safety standards. In a 24-page decision issued Feb....

1+ hour, 45+ min ago  (330+ words) Bill Raney, the founder and longtime owner of the beloved Nickelodeon Theater, died last week at 90, leaving behind a legacy that is deep in the cultural DNA of Santa Cruz. For more than three decades, he brought independent, foreign and…...

1+ hour, 45+ min ago  (482+ words) After 30 people demanded that the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees rescind a Dec. 11 decision to lay off 80 teachers and 78 school employees, nearly 200 people who had packed the Watsonville City Council chambers Wednesday walked out en masse to…...

1+ week, 53+ min ago  (576+ words) Moskowitz's Dead in the Kitchen, is a beautiful hardbound, embossed, and user-friendly cookbook full of recipes guaranteed to delight any palate. The forward comes from Mollie Katzen (of Moosewood and Enchanted Broccoli Forest cookbook fame) who shares her experience making…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (608+ words) Santa Cruz Events This Week | Feb 26March 3Santa Cruz Weekly Things to do in Santa Cruz KITCHEN COUNTERCULTURE To be a deadhead is more than just being a fan of the Grateful Dead. It's to be part of a community. As Jim…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (203+ words) Cue tastes like The Sweetness with fresh rosemary, pistachios and hot honey; the Barking Dogs with dill pickles, cup-and-char pepperoni and "ranch dust; and The Mushroom Hunter, International Pizza Expo Throw-down Traditional Class Winner in 2024 thanks to shiitake, king oyster…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (395+ words) Since November, local business leaders have grown concerned about the impacts that offshore oil drilling may have on the region's economy, after the Trump administration released a plan proposing two sites off California's central coast. In reaction, advocates of local…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (388+ words) Caltrans will lower speed limits on several segments of Highway 9 in Santa Cruz County following a recent engineering and traffic survey of an 11.63-mile section of the roadway. The study area begins just south of Exit Road at the Santa…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago  (605+ words) From the Canadian Rockies to the Central Coast The festival begins each year in Banff, where more than 400 films are submitted from around the world. Over the course of a week, audiences screen the films and vote on their favorites....

2+ week, 3+ hour ago  (703+ words) THURSDAY 2/19 GUITAR MARK STUART Continuing the Ugly Mug tradition of bringing the best to the smallest venue in town, rush to see Mark Stuart. As the founder of The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Stuart wasn't interested in a parody…...