All News in Santa Cruz County on August 16, 2026

•California considers increase in minimum wage, training for security guards ahead of Olympics cbsnews.com

Aug 16, 06:58 • cbsnews.com

•Last 8 p.m. sunsets of 2026 vary among Bay Area regions. Here’s why kioncentralcoast.com

Aug 16, 02:59 • kioncentralcoast.com

•Pace slows in Timber Fire as closure order is issued kcbx.org

Aug 16, 01:40 • kcbx.org

•Studies look at ‘less bad’ options for farmers facing groundwater cutbacks hanfordsentinel.com

Aug 16, 00:45 • hanfordsentinel.com

•Wine industry pledges $820,000 to combat grapevine pest in California livermorevine.com

Aug 16, 23:05 • livermorevine.com

•Man arrested after alleged forced entry into a Santa Rosa home telemundoareadelabahia.com

Aug 16, 22:01 • telemundoareadelabahia.com

•More Than 80 Pounds of Possibly Stolen Mail Recovered in Major Bay Area Bust sfist.com

Aug 16, 21:58 • sfist.com

•Why 'unusually large' swarms of dragonflies are everywhere in the Bay Area sfgate.com

Aug 16, 21:26 • sfgate.com

•Person who died after falling off cliff in Santa Cruz was a student telemundoareadelabahia.com

Aug 16, 21:21 • telemundoareadelabahia.com

•Cristiano Ronaldo: "Probablemente, este será mi último año en el fútbol" telemundo33.com

Aug 16, 20:59 • telemundo33.com

•California’s new housing, homelessness czar eastbaytimes.com

Aug 16, 20:24 • eastbaytimes.com

•‘Uncharted territory’: Second-largest reservoir in US plunges to a record low actionnewsnow.com

Aug 16, 17:23 • actionnewsnow.com

•States set school vaccine requirements. Trump’s new executive order doesn’t change that actionnewsnow.com

Aug 16, 17:23 • actionnewsnow.com

•Blanche dice que no sería lo mejor que el FBI tome el mando en la investigación sobre Nancy Guthrie telemundoareadelabahia.com

Aug 16, 17:20 • telemundoareadelabahia.com

•Op-ed | License Plate Readers Were Already a Privacy Nightmare. Then Came SignalTrace. davisvanguard.org

Aug 16, 12:58 • davisvanguard.org

•Affordable Housing Costs More to Build Than Market-Rate Housing — But It Doesn’t Have To davisvanguard.org

Aug 16, 12:58 • davisvanguard.org

•KFF Analysis: California One Of At Least 37 States Have Medicaid State Directed Payments For Hospital Services That Could Be Reduced By The 2025 Trump/Republicans “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” goldrushcam.com

Aug 16, 12:40 • goldrushcam.com

•National Fire News for Saturday, August 15, 2026 - Firefighters Are Currently Working To Contain 88 Uncontained Large Fires Nationwide and Two Large Airtankers and One Birddog From Manitoba, Canada, Have Deployed To Boise goldrushcam.com

Aug 16, 12:40 • goldrushcam.com

•Republicans won the redistricting competition. Don't tell that to this California congressman sfgate.com

Aug 16, 12:22 • sfgate.com

•California U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, Democratic Colleagues Sound Alarm on Trump’s New Barriers to Naturalization With Hundreds of Dollars in Fee Increases goldrushcam.com

Aug 16, 12:20 • goldrushcam.com

•California Legislature Urges Congress to Update Immigration Registry, Expand Pathway to Legal Status davisvanguard.org

Aug 16, 11:58 • davisvanguard.org

•Billions of sea stars have died. A Northwest tribe is trying to save the species kalw.org

Aug 16, 10:58 • kalw.org

•Are mosquitoes, ticks and fleas turning California into a disease hotspot? latimes.com

Aug 16, 10:22 • latimes.com

•California planned a nuclear exit. Now it’s reconsidering latimes.com

Aug 16, 10:22 • latimes.com