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A Stroll Though Capitola Village
Wandering the Capitola Village and its bay front promenade — window shopping and snacking along the way — is a quintessential part of any Santa Cruz experience.
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Putting more electric trucks and buses on California roads will improve air quality and grow local jobs. But for many fleets, the transition to electric will require innovative policy and finance solutions to get the job done on pace with …
The University of California is requiring candidates for faculty employment or promotion to write statements declaring their active support for diversity policies, but some see it as impinging on academic freedom.
What’s more arcane—the Mystery Spot, or Santa Cruz’s local government?
Marin County created the state's first Community Choice Aggregator to deliver energy in 2010. Now, CCA's cover almost the entire California coast, with more than 200 communities choosing to take part in this new way of powering homes and businesses.
Basketball legend Bill Russell and iconic baseball play-by-play broadcaster Vin Scully will be remembered as two of the most monumental figures in California sports history.
California has some top-notch tourist attractions—with top-shelf prices. Here are some that won’t break the bank.
Meanwhile, the latest San Jose Inside Power Poll finds that voters don’t much care about the fate of the former city hall.
How a recent policy with bureaucratic-sounding name ‘Consumer Choice Aggregation’ delivers clean energy from renewable sources more efficiently to California consumers, potentially helping to roll back climate change.
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An informed citizenry needs a steady diet of carefully reported, unbiased news stories on state government. CalMatters is on the job.
Steven Carrillo, an active-duty Air Force servicemember, fell down a rabbit hole of Facebook extremism and became convinced he could start a new civil war. Then he turned his online obsession into real-life murder.
Extreme climate conditions that can be traced directly back to global warming are fueling the Oak Fire, the biggest California fire of 2022. Here’s how climate change is causing the disaster.
Just being a college town doesn’t entirely explain how Santa Cruz serves as a magnet for agents of change.
Looking back at the Sixties and Seventies in Santa Cruz
The Amah Mutsun were the first people to care for this part of the Central Coast. Tribal Chairman Valentin Lopez talks about how the modern-day tribe is continuing that quest.
Read about three Indigenous tribes—the Chumash, Esselen and Amah Mutsun—and the natural wonders they seek to protect.
In which a pioneer of Dynamical Systems Theory (and its cousin, Chaos Theory) moves from Princeton to ... wait... UC Santa Cruz, California?
County sheriffs have tended to be predominantly white, male and politically conservative. But in California, those trends may be moving in the other direction, as recent elections and legislation appear to show.
Sometimes it seems like the future is approaching way too quickly. On a pleasant summer day, why not take a deep breath and celebrate some things that haven’t changed?
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