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Woman Found Ice-Age Mastodon Tooth on California Beach

June 7, 2023
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Over the Memorial Day weekend, a woman was taking a stroll at Rio Del Mar State Beach in Northern California when she found a mysterious object in the sand that turned out to be a tooth from an ancient mastodon.  The foot-long tooth belonged to an adult member of the extinct Ice Age species. This…

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‘Expect Chaos’: Climate Expert Forecasts Extreme Weather as West Coast Prepares for El Niño

May 30, 2023
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Climate experts are warning of possible extreme weather as an El Niño weather pattern arrives this summer along the west coast. This year’s El Niño looks to be a “strong one,” according to climate expert Dr. Jennifer Francis, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Climate Research Center in Massachusetts. “Expect Chaos,” Francis said on…

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3 Rescued From a Car Teetering Over a Cliff in California

January 18, 2023
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In a situation almost straight out of a Hollywood movie, three people were rescued from a car that was teetering on the edge of a cliff in the Santa Cruz Mountains. California Highway Patrol responded to a phone call reporting the incident on Old Mill Road on January 13, according to the agency. At first…

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California Braces for Next Series of Storms

January 12, 2023
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State emergency officials are preparing for the likely possibility that California’s Monterey Peninsula will become an island as more storms hit the rain-soaked region this weekend. Crews were moving ambulances, firefighters, and first responders to the areas around Monterey, Carmel, Pacific Grove, and Pebble Beach Jan. 12 as they anticipated rivers in the area to…

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Filled-Out Ballots Found Discarded in Mountain Ravine In San Jose | Facts Matter

December 9, 2022
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Several days after the actual date of the midterm elections, someone discovered mysteriously discarded ballots in a mountain ravine in Santa Clara County, California. The bag was stuffed with fully filled out, completed ballots and discarded in a ravine off in the Santa Cruz mountains. And oddly enough, several of the envelopes that housed these…

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Arches, Beaches, and Butterflies in Santa Cruz, California

November 15, 2022
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On a sunny autumn day in Santa Cruz, California, my friend and I walked the paved path along West Cliff Drive. Our route lay between Natural Bridges State Park to the west and the Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse to the east. During our four-mile out-and-back walk, we viewed sandstone arches, beautiful beaches, and wintering monarch…

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California Monterey Bay Area Open for Crabbing After Delay

December 14, 2021
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—The Dungeness crab season on the West Coast is now starting after a delay this year. Some fishing zones are permitted to open with some new restrictions. On Dec. 9, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced that commercial crabbing in the Monterey Bay region, Zone 4, is officially set to…

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California County Mandates Masks in Private Homes for People Not in Same Household

November 23, 2021
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Officials in Santa Cruz County, California, imposed a sweeping indoor mask mandate (pdf) this week that includes private settings. For individuals gathering with people who do not live in the same household, masks should be worn in homes regardless of the COVID-19 vaccination status, according to the county on Monday. “Masks must be worn in private…

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California Talk Radio Station Launches Weekly Show Critical of Chinese Communist Party

April 22, 2021
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Commentary SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—KSCO, Santa Cruz, a longtime news/talk powerhouse serving California’s Central Coast, has launched a unique and compelling weekly two-hour radio show this past September designed to keep Americans apprised of the dangers being presented to U.S. interests domestically and worldwide by China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The show is provocatively…

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