Santa Cruz County Local News Search

11/28/2022
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has unanimously approved its staff recommendation to surrender the license for the four lower PacifiCorp dams on the Klamath River in California and Oregon—and begin the dam removal process.

11/28/2022
In November, Associate Justice Kelli Evans became the third Black associate justice on the California Supreme Court. Black justices now make up half of the associate justices on the state’s High Court.

11/21/2022
Members of Congress are inquiring about a failed U.S Forest Service plan that could have saved Grizzly Flat from destruction. In a Nov. 18 letter, lawmakers demanded answers on shortcomings of the Forest Service’s Trestle Forest Health Project.

11/20/2022
The case for nuclear power as a climate solution got a big boost when the Biden administration announced it's giving Pacific Gas & Electric Co. a $1.1-billion grant to help the company keep operating California's last nuclear plant.

11/16/2022
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not seek to lead House Democrats for another term, but will remain in Congress.

11/14/2022
House Republicans voted to nominate Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as the next speaker, putting the Bakersfield lawmaker on track to achieve a long-sought ambition.

11/11/2022
A week after the election and two California congressional races are neck and neck: Assemblyman Adam Gray (D-Merced) and Republican opponent John Duarte are evenly matched in the 13th District. And there’s still no clear winner in the 22nd, where Assemblyman Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield) and Republican incumbent David Valadao (R-Hanford) are similarly tied. The races will determine whether the congressional majority is red or blue.

11/08/2022
Matsui, the victor with 65 percent of vote, will represent Elk Grove, downtown Sacramento, Florin, Galt and Rancho Murieta.

11/08/2022
California Assemblyman Kevin Kiley has a 9,000-plus vote lead on Dr. Kermit Jones to serve District 3 in the U.S. House of Representatives.

11/08/2022
Republican Congressman Tom McClintock will keep a seat in congress in a newly drawn 5th Congressional District after defeating Democrat Michael Barkley on election night. The district, which encompasses all or parts of El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Stanislaus, Madera and Fresno counties, gave McClintock 60.1% of votes.

10/24/2022
Candidates for the newly created California 3rd Congressional District are Kermit Jones, a physician and veteran, and former deputy attorney general Kevin Kiley.

10/23/2022
Santa Clara County school board candidates zeroed in on student mental health and substance use at a recent community-hosted forum. Dozens of attendees turned out for a virtual forum last week organized by the African American Community Services Agency, SOMOS Mayfair, Vietnamese American Roundtable, Jewish Community Relations Council of Silicon Valley and Latinos United for...

10/20/2022
In an interview, US Senate candidate Mark Meuser likens his status as a Republican in California to a "missionary in the Dark Continent.” Republican National Committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon decodes the gaffe as Meuser “not going where it’s easy…but going where it’s hard.”

09/26/2022
Peter Hernandez and Zoe Lofgren are in the runoff for the redrawn 18th Congressional District, which includes all of San Benito County, as well as the eastern half of Monterey and Santa Clara counties and the southeastern part of Santa Cruz County.

08/01/2022
Senators from California and Nevada have sent a letter urging the Biden Administration to re-establish the Lake Tahoe Federal Advisory Committee and to address senior leadership staffing issues within the USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit.

06/15/2022
Norm Mineta, former U.S. secretary of transportation and San Jose’s first Asian American mayor, is being laid to rest in his hometown. Family, friends and colleagues shared memories, anecdotes and stories at a Thursday memorial at the San Jose Civic Center.

05/09/2022
Monterey County voters will be deciding who will lead two newly defined congressional districts in the June 2022 primary elections with what used to be District 20—led by Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Carmel Valley—now made up of districts 18 and 19.