Santa Cruz News

Environmentalists have won a round in the state Supreme Court in their challenge to a planned expansion of the campus at UC Santa Cruz.

The state Supreme Court declined Wednesday to review a lower court ruling that invalidated an environmental evaluation of expanding water and sewer service to UC Santa Cruz.

The Cob Cottage Company instructors Dave Gonsalez and Fernanda Medici will be teaching a cob roof workshop in August 2013 in the Santa Cruz area.

The city of Santa Cruz's desalination partner has decided to drop out of a controversial pro-desal lobbying group.

The draft EIR for the proposed desalination plant in Santa Cruz rejects considering simply connecting to the proposed 10 million gallon per day desalination plant in Moss Landing, stating that it is only in the early planning process and has an uncertain future.

Nafisa 'Jiah' Khan, the young Bollywood starlet who allegedly hanged herself in her home on Monday, was buried in Mumbai on Wednesday, after police determined that she ended her life over a troubled romance and the shaky state of her film career.

"FREE" ITEMS ON THE CURB = POLLUTION IN SANTA CRUZ UCSC Students Asked to Avoid Annual Move-Out Sidewalk Dumping and Choose to Donate to Local Non-Profits Instead Each June during the student move-out season, the curbs of Santa Cruz are filled with TVs, mattresses and furniture with "FREE" signs attached.

A single source exists to supply more than three times as much drinking water each day as a controversial seawater desalination facility proposed by the city of Santa Cruz and neighboring Soquel Creek Water District.

Why do I feel like Mike Rotkin is trying to bully me ? Just because I'm not as convinced as he is that desalinating ocean water is the only solution to Santa Cruz's water problems.

Travers is chief executive officer of Born Free USA . t's a good time to be a mountain lion [also called puma] in Santa Cruz, California! The Department of Fish and Wildlife, researchers at UC Santa Cruz, and other organizations successfully relocated a mountain lion found in an aqueduct recently.

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The city of Santa Cruz recently released a Draft Environmental Impact Report that clearly demonstrates that the city faces a serious water shortage and that no alternative to desalination can produce enough water to meet the needs of both the community and fish in local streams.