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The city of Santa Cruz and the Soquel Creek Water District have worked with UC Santa Cruz to construct a pilot desalting facility at Long Marine Laboratory at the end of Delaware Avenue.

'There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damn lies and statistics.' Perhaps Mark Twain was anticipating the confusion about California education when he adopted that line from a quote by British Prime Minister ...

Valley Mountain Regional Center's San Andreas office moved to a new location effective Sept.

Caltrans has finished construction on a $43 million two-lane bridge just south of Pacifica that will connect Highway 1 to the southern end of the Devil's Slide tunnels.

On an afternoon this week, a truck maneuvered its way through the crowds of students traversing UC Berkeley, making its way to the center of the campus.

The California red-legged frog regained political territory Tuesday as the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed designating 1.8 million acres in California as critical habitat for the threatened species.

A 60-day comment period on a new plan to designate 1.8 million acres as critical habitat for the threatened California red-legged frog began this week.

The California red-legged frog needs four times as much protected habitat than was set aside for it in 2006, federal wildlife officials said.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating 1.8 million acres as critical habitat for the threatened California red-legged frog, a 300 percent increase over the amount of land designated in ...

Federal wildlife officials say the California red-legged frog needs four times as much protected habitat than was set aside for it two years ago.

Credentials: On his father's side, Airola comes from a line of generations of Calaveras County attorneys.

Victims of rape or child abuse in Calaveras County no longer have to endure the additional trauma of being driven hours away to another city for their medical examinations.

Look out, old Mackie is back. Last seen in these parts in the summer of 2005, that notorious pimp, thief and killer Macheath, aka Mack the Knife, is coming back in February.

The 11th annual Gay Days Anaheim will take over California Disney October 3-5. Friday events include a screening of short films featured at Outfest.

HOLLISTER Fans of American music and vintage instruments will want to attend the "Banjo-ologist" Gordy Ohliger's performance at 7:30 p.m. today at San Benito High School.

I take issue with the premise of the IJ's Aug. 24 editorial promoting the Golden Gate Bridge suicide barrier.

D. James Smith sits in the Boar's Nest, the garage turned writing studio that sits behind his Fresno home, and ponders the future of "The Boys of San Joaquin" series.

News : $3.5 million Sixteen to One Gold Collection on the Block: Overseas? 08/12/2008 To everything there is a season Story courtesy The Mountain Messenger, Downieville, California Photo courtesy Sixteen to One ...

The 2nd Space Theatre has announced a 2009 lineup that includes an award-winning Neil Simon play and a classic from George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart: "The Trip to Bountiful" -- Horton Foote's play, set in the ...

Closing the downtown Main Library might not be the tragedy that many have envisioned.