Students explored how ideas become world-class products, toured decades of bicycle innovation, experienced Specialized’s renowned “Win” Tunnel, and recorded a student-led podcast with Ben Capron, Leader of Brand Voice at Specialized.

Measure D, on Santa Cruz County's November ballot, would extend 1986's voter-approval requirement for onshore oil and gas facilities to cover seabed mining too — locking in local control before federal leasing opens central coast waters to drilling and mineral extraction as soon as next year.

CarbonBridge's direct-gas bioreactor now runs with automated self-diagnostics, earns an intern's stamp of approval, and heads toward NRTL certification at a customer site: proof that hardware, not just chemistry, is maturing fast.

Purcell is redesigning the bulk food aisle with a sanitary, low-waste dispenser built to replace leaky gravity bins and single-use packaging, and the Santa Cruz Works accelerator graduate will present the M1 live at SCWorks New Tech on September 9.

Ever wondered what a Joby aircraft sounds like? Their new simulator lets you compare the noise to an airplane or helicopter.

Where art meets engineering: the Santa Cruz studio behind The Sphere, Green Day, and Louvre Paris joins us for New Tech on Sept 9.

The Ocean Film Festival World Tour splashes down at the Rio Theatre on September 4th, kicking off a season of big screen adventure at the Rio that continues with Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival in October and Mountainfilm on Tour in November.

John Deere and Reservoir just struck a deal to help agtech startups test their tech with no strings attached.

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.