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This is Homecoming Week at Aptos High School, with activities including a parade, a dance, dress-up days, and a football game on Friday night versus Seaside. But this year’s celebrations are tempered as the school community still struggles to come to grips with the stabbing on campus Aug. 31 that left a 17-year-old student dead and two other students, aged 14 and 17, charged with his murder.

California State University Monterey Bay students are back on campus after 17 months of remote learning. But the back-to-school excitement is tempered. Since move-in day, 11 individuals on campus have tested positive for COVID-19.

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Businesses across the Monterey Bay are suffering a critical shortage of workers in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hospitality industry normally employs 26,000 people on the peninsula. But now, many restaurants, hotels and retail shops are struggling to operate, often lacking over a third of their pre-pandemic workforce.

Tricia Webber thought she would have more time to prepare for her first election as Santa Cruz County Clerk and Registrar of Voters. After all, election…

Case rates of COVID-19 are rising in the Monterey Bay Area. The culprit? Stagnant vaccination rates, and the highly infectious Delta variant. As we enter…

Before the pandemic, Car Week was a major event on the Monterey Peninsula. Now it’s back. Over the next two weeks, 85 thousand visitors are expected to…

A COVID-19 outbreak that was traced to a July 18 performance at the Felton Music Hall will almost certainly get worse, according to a top Santa Cruz…

The freshly printed sign taped to the brick wall of Shopper’s Corner Market in Santa Cruz says it all: masks are required. On Monday, Santa Cruz, Monterey…

At Saturday's Juneteenth celebration in Santa Cruz, it was almost like the last 14 months never happened. The smell of barbecue ribs filled the air.…