Erin Malsbury
Digital Reporter / PhotographerErin joined KAZU as a journalist and photographer in 2023. She's worked as a science writer for local and national outlets, and her stories have won a Public Media Journalists Association Award, five California Journalism awards and a SciShortForm award. Erin has a master’s degree in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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The City of Marina hosts a series of festivities to celebrate its 50th anniversary. And, renewable energy developer New Leaf Energy presents to the Watsonville City Council about the battery energy storage facility it wants to build near College Lake. -
Watsonville students created short films that will screen at UC Santa Cruz today. A Q&A discussion will follow the free event. And, local libraries are protesting censorship by celebrating Banned Books Week. -
A change in federal funding threatens local Head Start programs, which provide free preschool for low-income families. Plus, the City of Santa Cruz is seeking public input on the Wharf Master Plan. -
San Benito County employees represented by Service Employees International Union Local 521 are protesting proposed budget cuts. Plus, new research shows that internet cables could lead to earlier tsunami warnings. -
Almost 1,300 volunteers collected trash from beaches, rivers and parks on the Central Coast over the weekend in 58 local cleanups organized by the nonprofit Save Our Shores. -
Local veterans protest for peace at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. And, Santa Cruz and Monterey will join communities around the world in celebrating Sun Day to support solar energy efforts. -
Watsonville votes to expand a contract with Flock Safety for automated license plate readers. And, a state bill moves to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk that would make CEQA exemptions for certain transit projects permanent. -
More than 14,000 people on the Central Coast face contaminated drinking water from nitrates in agricultural fertilizers. The regional water quality control board is searching for alternative water solutions. -
Vistra Corp. plans to begin removing damaged batteries from its Moss Landing site later this month, and a bill moving through the state legislature would require schools to alert students and staff when immigration enforcement agents are on campuses. -
The Salinas Valley produces more than half of the country’s lettuce. But the fertilizer used to help grow it has contaminated many of Monterey County’s drinking water wells.
