Forty years in tech, some of it alongside John Sculley and David Hancock, taught me one pattern: computing always migrates from the rented mainframe to the desk you own. Free frontier models, memory-rich Macs, and a $69 cable are repeating it now. The AI scoreboard is wrong. Apple is quietly winning.

Join us for an evening of innovation as Santa Cruz-area entrepreneurs share what they're building, from elevated transit systems to sustainable retail hardware to game design and immersive experiences.

Children are already using AI, but true readiness means knowing how to question it, verify it and use it without replacing independent thought.

Santa Cruz is making progress on housing. San Luis Obispo and Berkeley show how clearer rules, faster review and better planning could help it do more.

Save The Waves Coalition's new peer-reviewed paper gives the "surf ecosystem," a term born partly in Santa Cruz, a rigorous scientific definition for protecting waves as whole, interconnected systems.

The Ocean Film Festival World Tour, now in its 13th year, is set to make a splash across the globe in 2026, returning with a powerful and visually stunning line-up of films that celebrate the ocean from every angle — above the surface, beneath the waves, and deep into the stories that connect us all to the sea.

A small satellite built by UC Santa Cruz students deployed from the International Space Station on July 2, 2026, making it the university’s first student-built satellite to reach space.

Santa Cruz clean energy firm MYNT lands on the Inc. 5000 for the fourth year running.

Versa Vascular, the Santa Cruz medtech company developing a transcatheter treatment for tricuspid valve disease, has named Bill Shields its new CEO.

Santa Cruz County has planned for thousands of new homes, but only a fraction have reached permits. This article examines why.

California’s coast is under threat again. August 22nd is the deadline to make your voice heard.

Santa Cruz based cannabis tech company Jane Technologies has once again earned a spot on the Inc. 5000.

After a global career spanning Stanford, Plug and Play, and Europe’s's EV charging industry, Maxwell Philp moved home to Santa Cruz and found his next role not online, but in a room full of neighbors.

Joby signed a definitive agreement to acquire Resonant Sciences LLC.

Tyler Coleman's Santa Cruz Game Dev Meetup celebrated its second anniversary at Nextspace with five playable local games and a packed room that included many first-time attendees.

More than a dozen local educators, artists, nonprofits, and innovation leaders united to inspire children and families through hands-on experiences in art, music, dance, theatre, technology, and entrepreneurship.

SwellCycle just proved a plant-based, 3D-printed board can hold up to one of the most demanding riders in surfing, Kai Lenny.

Joby Aviation touches down in Texas with a new 45,000 sq ft hub at Fort Worth's Perot Field.

Santa Cruz's entrepreneur-investor-author just released Experts Remain Divided, an AI novella narrated by a sixteen-year-old prodigy in short, devastating sentences, one week after publishing Book 2. Chronology matters. Warning: SCWorks attempts to mimic Vachon's’ writing style of clipped, telegraphic fragments; similar to Joyce and Vonnegut, but no one is as funny as Vachon.

Santa Cruz Works has launched a redesigned website featuring a new community events calendar, clearer membership pages, expanded talent resources and updated member perks.