Santa Cruz

In today’s newscast, Monterey County has launched a public education campaign to inform residents of their Constitutional rights regardless of immigration status. In Santa Cruz, the city council approved a recovery package for the wharf that includes free 2-hour parking for visitors, partial rent relief for affected businesses, and debit gift cards for some wharf employees.

The city is touting its success in moving unhoused residents into stable housing. But lack of shelter remains an issue.

Gov. Newsom wants California cities to clear all homeless encampments immediately. Keeley isn’t sure that’s the best move.

The homeless population in the city of Santa Cruz dropped by 36% in one year. It rose in every other city in the county.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 28 that an Oregon city’s laws banning homeless people from sleeping in public do not violate the Constitution. The ruling clears the way for cities across the country to institute similar bans.

Can a city legally punish someone for sleeping outside if there’s no shelter available? That’s the question at the heart of a U.S. Supreme Court case slated for a ruling by the end of June.

A Santa Cruz startup is 3D printing surfboards out of recycled plastic in hopes of making surfing more sustainable.

The elementary-aged students from Tara Redwood School in Santa Cruz discovered a fossilized bone while exploring a creek last spring. The bone was from the arm of a Jefferson ground sloth — the first fossil to show the Ice Age creature lived in the Santa Cruz area.

A new state law aims to keep food and other organic waste out of the landfill. But the food scrap collection program in Santa Cruz is making a mess for some residents.

Cynthia Mathews spent her career fighting for reproductive rights, and brought Planned Parenthood to Santa Cruz over 50 years ago.