Santa Cruz News

Students at Westlake Elementary School are saying no to a ride to school in the family vehicle and yes to their walking school bus.

Throughout my four years in Santa Cruz, I have rented four different houses. All have been old, inefficient, and owned by absentee landlords.

A draft environmental impact report released Monday for a controversial water supply project reaches two critical conclusions: No alternative to a seawater desalination plant will create or save the water needed by two local agencies, and safeguards built into the design will eliminate all significant harm.

Director of viral video "The Hipster Games," and the creators of "Bill Murray Appreciation Day" have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $18,000 by May 25th for the short film comedy "Mike Garcia and the Cruz," about a Santa Cruz punk, gothic gamer, hipster and derby girl retrieving a laptop stolen by bureaucratic anarchists.

Filmmaker and homeless advocate Brent Adams put together this video suggesting that Santa Cruz look into another alternative for the homeless problem plaguing the city and county.

I may be a little late in reviewing Google Maps ' "voice guided turn-by-turn navigation" system mainly because I tend not to get lost very often and actually devised maps as a living for a good 20 years.

On Tuesday, May 7 at 7 PM, the Santa Cruz City Council will hold a special study session about the Regional Seawater Desal Project Draft Environmental Impact Report which is expected to be released next week.

On Monday, the science writing program's director, Ann Finkbeiner, e-mailed alumni of the program to announce that there would be no 2013-2014 class.

A Stage 1 Water Shortage Alert goes into effect Wednesday and that means scaled back use of water through October - or pay a fine.

Central California Alliance for Health, JKG a nonprofit health plan, received the Bronze Quality Award from the state for outstanding performance for care of Medi-Cal members in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.

A feature documentary from award-winning director Velcrow Ripper , Occupy Love explores the cultural uprisings of our time from the Occupy Movement and Arab Spring to the European Summer and environmental protests and asks the question, "how could the crisis we are facing become a love story?". "Occupy Love is the culmination of a twelve year ... (more)

"The next revolution in EDA, and one of the factors that will change the EDA industry in the near future, is embedded software," Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics, told the Globalpress Summit in Santa Cruz last week.