Editorial | Big Tech’s AI pitch seeks license to steal
Open AI and Google, having long trained their ravenous bots on the work of newsrooms like this one, now want to throw out long established copyright law by arguing, we kid you not, that the only way...
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Aptos’ Isaiah Ackerman, Santa Cruz’s DeMarco Hunter share MVP honor |...
Two uber talented and versatile high school athletes in Santa Cruz County were sensational for the duration of the 2024-25 boys basketball season. Both were capable of playing all five positions on the...
View ArticleWhat do the cuts at the US Education Department mean for Santa Cruz County...
SANTA CRUZ — Early last week, the U.S. Department of Education took a major step toward President Donald Trump’s stated goal of dismantling the 46-year-old federal agency by gutting it of half its...
View ArticleSanta Cruz Planning Commission to discuss ‘New Fmali’ development
SANTA CRUZ — At its meeting Thursday evening, the city of Santa Cruz Planning Commission will consider the mixed-use, six-story development known as “New Fmali” proposed for 831 Almar Ave. next to the...
View ArticleEditorial | A billion dollars just doesn’t go that far anymore
You might remember the popular “Austin Powers” film trilogy (1997-2002) and one of the memorable lines voiced by the Mike Myers’ character Dr. Evil that is endlessly repeated during financial turmoil...
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Photos | Somewhere over the rainbow
The Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse in Santa Cruz is darkened by a cloud's shadow Monday afternoon as a rainbow colors the sky over the Monterey Bay. (Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel)The steeple of...
View ArticlePhoto | Fans line up at Bookshop Santa Cruz for latest book in ‘Hunger Games’...
A line formed on Pacific Avenue as “Hunger Games” fans wait to enter Bookshop Santa Cruz Monday night for the release of “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the latest book in the series. The store was closed to...
View ArticleStreaking Santa Cruz plays bigger, better than Texas to secure fifth straight...
Forward Blake Hinson and two-way forward Braxton Key turned in another stellar showing, and streaking the Santa Cruz Warriors beat the Texas Legends 127-116 in front of 5,975 fans at the teams’ NBA G...
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Scotts Valley’s baseball team earns walk-off win over Santa Teresa | Local...
Senior Kaleb Wing struck out nine batters over 4 2/3 and scoreless innings, and Scotts Valley High’s baseball team earned a 2-1 walk-off win over visiting Santa Teresa in nonleague action Tuesday....
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Thriving at D-II Westmont, Jack Bollengier hopes to take his game to the next...
Although Jack Bollengier plays baseball for an NCAA Division II school, he’s proven he can hold his own alongside Division I-level talent. Which begs the question: Will that be enough for the Aptos...
View ArticleCalendar of Events | DNA, Karin Babbitt record first comedy album at Kuumbwa...
SANTA CRUZ DNA, Karin Babbitt record comedy album at Kuumbwa As comedians, DNA and Karin Babbitt have spent decades generating laughs on stage, but neither has ever recorded a comedy album. That...
View ArticleMountain Community Theater’s ‘Steel Magnolias’ celebrates the power of...
Set in a hair salon in Louisiana of the 1980s, Mountain Community Theater’s first production of 2025 is a play focused on the ability of human connection to overcome hardship. Originally written as a...
View ArticleDientes Community Dental and Salud Para La Gente partner for senior oral...
SANTA CRUZ — With the number of seniors in Santa Cruz County increasing at a rate that outpaces the state average, two community health nonprofits have teamed up to launch an oral health campaign they...
View ArticleGuest Commentary | Why ‘Das Kapital’ is at work in our town and elsewhere
By Tim Bowden There is yet another boycott in our town and this one opposes corporate greed, which is apparently a great menace. Do you remember the objection to, for instance, Costco coming to town?...
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Seven-story downtown Santa Cruz housing development outlined in meeting
SANTA CRUZ — Preliminary plans for a seven-story mixed-use building on the 900 block of Pacific Avenue in downtown Santa Cruz were discussed by city planning staff and the project’s architect at an...
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Photos | Spring comes into bloom in Santa Cruz
Backlit California flannelbush flowers brighten Bay Street as a cyclist pedals by. French writer Gérard de Nerval wrote, “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature." Flannelbush is a flowering shrub...
View ArticleArt Seen | Lecture to look at Hubble Deep Field decades after discovery of...
A revolutionary image made over 10 days in December 1995 from the Hubble Telescope 30 years ago of an area of the sky astronomers had thought was empty displays a massive quantity of celestial bodies....
View ArticleSt. Francis baseball earns walk-off win over Aptos | Local Roundup
Nicholas Fantl had a hit and two RBI, and Javier Fonseca also drove in two runs to help St. Francis High’s baseball team edge visiting Aptos 5-3 for its second walk-off win Wednesday in nonleague play....
View Article12th annual Central Coast Basketball All-Star Games take place Sunday at...
SCOTTS VALLEY — Some of the area’s top senior boys and girls hoopsters, as well as the 2025-26 incoming class of freshmen boys, will compete at the 12th annual Central Coast Basketball All-Star Games...
View ArticleTargeting sanddabs, sole and Dungeness crab while awaiting rockfish season |...
No one did much fishing this past week in the Monterey Bay area. Conditions were just too rough, even for most surfcasters. If the wind and swells remain moderate, fishing for tasty sanddabs and sole...
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