As the long-awaited West Cliff 50-year Community Vision document was adopted by the Santa Cruz City Council meeting Tuesday, the proposed two-year, one-way pilot project on West Cliff Drive was scrapped after hours of public comment made by concerned community members.
Capitola leaders and regional transportation professionals gathered along the bluff at Cliff Drive that overlooks the historic Capitola Wharf on Tuesday to celebrate the launch of BCycle, a dock-based bicycle sharing program now live within city limits.
With humpback whales heading back to their feeding grounds off coastal California and gray whales migrating north to Alaska, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced it will close the commercial and recreational Dungeness crab fisheries in southern and central fishing zones to reduce the risk of entanglements. Recently spotters with the department counted as many as 34 humpbacks in one day, said Ryan Bartling, a senior environmental scientists at the wildlife agency.