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Lisa Jensen is the author of the novels, Alias Hook , and The Witch From the Sea , proprietress of the arts and entertainment blog, Lisa Jensen Online Express , and longtime film critic and columnist for the alternative weekly, Good Times , in Santa Cruz, CA.

If the fog burns off on Friday, Santa Cruzans will be surprised by what they see.

Gretchen Rubio-Lopez, 1, reacts to a vaccination shot given to her by medical assistant Vanessa Munoz as she is held by her mother, Veronica Rubio, at the Salud Para La Gente Health Clinic in Watsonville.

Caltrans will begin an overnight project to install traffic cameras along six miles of Highway 1 from Freedom Boulevard in Aptos to Soquel Drive in Santa Cruz Monday at 9 p.m. No traffic delays are anticipated since no lane closures are required, but motorists should be aware of work crews in the area.

Cabrillo Festival's Church Street Fair! Celebrating its 23rd year, this two-day festival offers an inspiring reflection of the arts in Santa Cruz.

Regina Dingillo caught this 19-pound flatty fishing near the Santa Cruz Mile Buoy on the Easy Money earlier this week.

A Santa Cruz firefighter responds to an injury crash near Grandview and Swift streets in Santa Cruz on Monday night.

Melanie and Mike Freitas have been running the Wharf to Wharf hand in hand for more than 30 years.

Announcement: Friday, July 25 at 7 p.m. at Bookshop Santa Cruz at 1520 Pacific Ave. Join Bookshop Santa Cruz and Save Our Shores for a celebration of Blue Mind , book signing with Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, an acclaimed marine biologist and conservationist.

Researchers examine a dead blue whale killed in a collision with a ship. Blue whales cluster for long periods of time in the busy Pacific Ocean shipping lanes off the California coast, raising concern about collisions between vessels and the endangered marine mammals, a new study has found.

Santa Cruz, the city reputed for its laid-back, easy-breezy style, took 12th place among "The Snobbiest Small Cities In America."

A central question in the debate over a Rutgers University-led study of the ocean floor off the coast of Long Beach Island is whether the loud sound waves used to map the sediment will harm dolphins, whales, and other animals.

You might suggest that your reader who is having trouble parking on the street in front of his or her home take a swing by Monarch Way on the Westside of Santa Cruz.

SCOTTS VALLEY >> John Geringer and Christopher Luck, accused of running a $60 million Ponzi scheme with Keith Rode, have pleaded guilty in federal court to three counts involving securities fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.

SANTA CRUZ >> Santa Cruz County is weighing the most significant rewrite of affordable housing rules since local voters ushered in an era of slow growth in the 1970s.

SANTA CRUZ >> Early morning kayaker Amber Jones, who recently spotted a sea lion with netting embedded in its head, was ecstatic when she learned the ailing marine mammal had been rescued.

Santa Cruz is a few pen strokes away from installing Automated License Plate Readers in city police cruisers.

"Cabrillo has become a summer mecca for musicians and a premier musical destination for audiences."

But Latinos who live in southern Santa Cruz County have higher vaccination rates and a dramatically lower incidence of whooping cough than the more affluent white population in the northern end of the county, according to data reported by schools and the county health department.

Mackenzie Fullmer is hosting a brew night this Friday at her Second Street Cafe in downtown Watsonville, featuring beers and brewers from Seabright Brewery.