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Sunday 4/6: California Wildlife Day 2025
Palo Corona Regional Park, 4860 Carmel Valley Rd, Carmel-by-the-Sea
Santa Cruz Baroque Festival
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Strategies describe emissions reductions, disaster preparation.
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors took the first step in updating the county’s climate action strategy, a response to global warming and its effects on infrastructure and the people who live here. Updating the County’s Climate …
WATSONVILLE—Voters who live in proximity to the Pajaro River levee system will soon decide on adding a special assessment to their property tax bill that would help fund the long-awaited Pajaro River Flood Risk Management Project. The Pajaro Regional Flood …
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—Recycling is an idea that has become deeply embedded in modern culture, so much so that many don’t think twice before placing cans, bottles and cardboard into the appropriate bins. Beginning this year, a new law will let …
Santa Cruz city residents to get pails, other areas to mix food waste with yard trimmings
LA Times staff writer Louis Sahagun reports from the front lines of the battle to preserve California’s most endangered species.
What do resource conservation districts protect? Pretty much everything that’s worth saving.
Residential wells are drying up in the state’s main agricultural region at the same time that agricultural businesses consume almost 90 percent of the water there.
A Good Times cover story explores big-picture solutions envisioned by Santa Cruz County water agencies.
Noise pollution and a drought-driven shortage of salmon have led the federal government to expand the Monterey Bay protected habitat zone for killer whales.
Santa Cruz County water agencies will expand metering of groundwater pumped from private wells on agricultural land, may also charge new fees.
Santa Cruz County's water system is run by a decentralized collection of entities.
Santa Cruz is one of the few California communities that receive 100 percent of its water from local rainfall.
Californians Against Waste was one of the main advocates behind SB 1383, which requires California to divert 75 percent of its organic waste from landfills. California Local talked to CAW’s Nick Lapis to learn more about what it does and …
In 2022, California trash haulers will begin turning millions of tons of methane-emitting organic waste into a new cash crop: compost.
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