1+ hour, 45+ min ago   (374+ words) A year and a half after the massive battery fire at the Moss Landing Power Plant, a final environmental assessment concludes that off-site soil, sediment and surface water sampled around the facility do not appear to pose an unacceptable long-term…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (728+ words) Recent Watsonville High graduate Azucena Sandoval spent much of her education learning the fundamentals of science she will study this fall at Stanford University. But she rarely got to put those concepts into practical use. That changed in late June…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (794+ words) Nine months of late nights, countless repairs and more than 100 hours spent testing an underwater robot in a swimming pool paid off in a big way for a team of Santa Cruz County high school students. Hephaestus Robotics, a 21-member…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (687+ words) Will advance to international competition in Canada A Santa Cruz County-based science education group took top honors in a regional underwater robotics competition April 25, earning a return trip to an international contest in Newfoundland, Canada. “It’s amazing,” said X Academy…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1008+ words) Questions on the human and environmental effects from the Moss Landing Battery Plant fire on the Jan. 17, 2025 are still being explored. The March 17 Monterey County Board of Supervisors’ meeting contained an update on the progress of the cleanup, what some…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (666+ words) Technology is proven, safe, developer says More than 150 people gathered Feb. 28 at Pinto Lake City Park to share ideas and information about a proposed Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) a few blocks away on Minto Road in Watsonville. The public…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (219+ words) Officials in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties will conduct a test of the Wireless Emergency Alert system on Thursday, sending emergency messages to mobile phones in flood inundation zones near the Pajaro River. The test is scheduled for about 3pm and…...