Doug McKnight
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Candidates for Santa Cruz Mayor on how they'd address housing development, UCSC student films highlight stories of wrongful convictions, invasive insects on fruit trees, and more in this week's local news roundup.
KAZU Green Room
Dylan Music
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Grammy-winning slack-key guitarist and singer George Kahumoku, Jr. has been making music for years. He's also a sculptor, farmer, and preserver ofHawaiian culture and heritage. He's lived most of his life in Hawaii, but he moved to Watsonville about a year ago. Now, he'll be performing at a Hawaiian cultural event taking place at the Chaminade Resort & Spa in Santa Cruz this weekend.
- I Cantori di Carmel brings "Carmina Burana" to the Great Outdoors of the Central Coast
- Bedrooms frozen in time: Carmel filmmaker discusses Oscar-winning documentary
- WATCH: Local art students celebrate their work on display at Salinas Valley Health
- Japanese American women artists are at the heart of "Pictures of Belonging."
- The Watsonville Film Festival focuses on art as resistance
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Tough-on-crime outsider Aberaldo de la Espriella took the lead in Colombia's presidential race on Sunday night, setting up a runoff with Iván Cepeda, an ally of outgoing President Gustavo Petro. -
The U.S. military says it bombed Iranian radar and drone control sites in Iran after Tehran shot down an American MQ-1 Predator drone this weekend. Kuwait said its air defenses opened fire on Monday. -
Aid workers in Uganda are watching an Ebola crisis unfold in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. They're doing what they can to prepare for an uptick in cases, but foreign aid cuts aren't helping. -
A deadly strike during the first days of the Iran war hit far away in the Indian Ocean, jolting a quiet seaside town and showing how far the conflict's reach extends.
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An entomologist researched the worms used in mescal to better understand the relationship between the creatures and specific agave plants - and the danger if harvesting increases.
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Several artists, including country singer Martina McBride, have withdrawn from the Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C. -
The flight to Palma de Mallorca diverted back to Newark late on Saturday. Air traffic audio and social media posts indicate an onboard Bluetooth device raised security concerns. -
The U.S. military said it carried out another strike on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean, killing three in the fourth attack this week and putting the total death toll at 205. -
Israel has captured the 12th century Beaufort Castle, which overlooks southern Lebanon and northern Israel. The move suggests Israel is planning an extended military presence in Lebanon. -
A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers reported Sunday, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer.
