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The city held an open house about the proposed ordinance and is accepting public comments on it until March 10.

Multiple piers have come and gone along the Santa Cruz coast, and in the last two columns I have slowly meandered south from ...

Santa Barbara Community Rowing got the spring racing season off to a strong start at the President’s Day Invitational Regatta in Long Beach on Saturday, ...