Over Six Arrests, Including Three Felonies, on 4/20
This story will continue to be updated. Update April 21, 3:30 p.m.: Police officers arrested Castroville residents Alexander David Garcia Romero Jr., 20, and Joel Anthony Campos-Cervantes, 22, on suspicion of felony possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a concealed firearm, transportation of marijuana for sales,...
Four UCSC Students Involved in Fatal Hwy 1 Crash
A fatal car crash in Monterey County on Highway 1 near Molera Road occurred midday on March 21. A Lexus SUV carrying seven young women, including four UC Santa Cruz students, cut across the center median and struck a Mazda sedan head on, killing the...
Building Blocks
The UC Santa Cruz housing office has worked for 18 months on in-depth West Campus housing plans to make sure the university’s future doesn’t get behind schedule. When the UC Office of the President mandated a student enrollment increase of 10,000 and the addition of...
Board of Regents Meeting Recap
The UC regents concluded their first board meeting of the year on Jan. 20 and 21 after announcing the addition of 14,000 beds by 2020 and a new student advisor position to the regents board. UC employees and students marched outside the meeting, held at...
Body Found on Local Beach Identified as Missing UCSC Student
UC Santa Cruz student Shireen Agha Ahsan’s body was found Monday night at Strawberry Beach, Nick Baldridge from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Unit confirmed. The remote beach in Wilder Ranch State Park is five miles south of where she and fellow student...
Amazon Juices Debuts at Global Village
After some delay, Amazon Juices at Global Village Cafe (GVC) opened on Wednesday with a limited menu of coffee, tea and pastries and a slow but steady flow of customers. The cafe closed in October, when Hoffman’s was evicted. GVC was set to reopen its...
UCSA Agenda Set for Meeting This Weekend
The monthly University of California Student Association (UCSA) meeting is scheduled for this weekend, Jan. 9-10, at UC San Diego. UCSA is a student government organization advocating for all 240,000 students and addressing issues such as the affordability and quality of the UC system. The...
Two Dead After Suspected Murder-Suicide on Chestnut Street
Two people were killed in what Santa Cruz police believe to be a murder-suicide on Tuesday night at the apartments on the 100 block of Chestnut. At 6:49 p.m. police responded to a report of suspicious circumstances and upon arrival found the two deceased from...
Tending to the Community
A bittersweet atmosphere hung over Beach Flats on Friday morning as community members gathered to reflect on and celebrate the community garden and mourn the expiration of its 20-year lease. However, this aura began to change as wafts of burning sage drifted over the fences,...
Cafe Brasil’s Amazon Juices to move into Global Village Cafe space within the next month
Amazon Juices, owned by Cafe Brasil, signed a five-year lease to the Global Village Cafe (GVC) space and will open by the end of 2015. Amazon Juices — located on 41st Avenue in Capitola — is nearly two years old and specializes in juices, acai...