SF News Videos: Tsunami Waves Hitting Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Sausalito, and... Emeryville Here are some videos of this morning's tsunami action shot by people along various Bay Area coastlines ranging from Santa Cruz to San Francisco to Emeryville. (Outside of Santa Cruz and Crescent City
SF News Tsunami Waves Damage Santa Cruz, Crescent City Harbors [PHOTOS] Prompted by the 8.9 earthquake in Japan, tsunami waves destroyed the harbor in Crescent City. The LA Times reports: Local residents reported that about three dozen boats were "crushed" in the harbor
SF News Things Aren't Looking Good for Mavericks This Year The big-wave surf competition known as Mavericks (a.k.a. The Jay at Mavericks) looks like it won't be happening this year because the window of time for the contest closes February 28
SF News Snow Spotted in South Bay! Some weather, huh!? In addition to some down trees and power outtages in various parts of the outer Bay, ABC 7 reports that snow has been spotted on Highway 9 down south, at
SF News Classes Canceled, Campus "Quiet" After Threat Of Violence At UCSC A threat of violence, via graffiti sprayed on a bathroom wall, prompted some classes cancelations at UC Santa Cruz today. According to Santa Cruz Sentinel, here's what happened: "On Jan. 11, UCSC administration
SF News Scholarship Fund Created To Honor UC Santa Cruz Grad Killed In Tucson Shooting Two UCSC alumni and The University of California at Santa Cruz have set up a scholarship in the name of Gabriel Zimmerman, the former banana slug/congressional staffer who was shot and killed
SF News UC Santa Cruz Grad One Of Six Killed In Arizona Shooting Rampage Of the six people killed during Saturday's rampage in Arizona, UC Santa Cruz graduate Gabriel Zimmerman, 30, was among them. Zimmerman was Gabrielle Giffords' community outreach director. He had organized the "Congress on
SF News Santa Cruz Inmate Escapes Custody, Then Gets Nabbed Santa Cruz was on the edge of its seat yesterday during the intense hunt for escaped fugitive Maurice Lamont Ainsworth Jr., who had escaped police custody yesterday while at Dominican Hospital for an
SF News Meth-Infused Driver Arrested Near Amgen Tour of California Oh dear. This fractured face here is in all sorts of trouble after allegedly trying to mow down pedestrians near the Amgen Tour of California route on Tuesday afternoon. According to BCN (via
SF News SF Man Arrested After Santa Cruz Tagging Orgy A 25-year-old San Francisco man was tossed in the Santa Cruz County on Saturday morning, accused of allegedly tagging a cop car and "vandalizing property across the city and causing $8,000 worth
SF News Protesters Block UCSC Entrance During 'Day of Action' Protest In honor of a Day of Statewide Action for Public Education, protesters at UC Santa Cruz are trying to make sure students don't receive one. As of this morning, UCSC students and employees
SF News "Deeply Disturbing" Noose Scribbled On Bathroom Door at UCSC Next to never flushing, anus shaving in the mirror, coded toe-taping on the floor, and other hygiene-free experiences -- daily occurrences at your SFist editor's alma mater -- another shocking incident happened inside
SF News Santa Cruz Outdoor Smoking Ban Starts Today If you're heading down to Santa Cruz this weekend to buy and take illicit drugs -- a common practice in a city that seems to have crashed into the side of California --
Arts & Entertainment Gay Family Day at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 10/3 Are you of the gay persuasion? Do you have a family? Do you like old roller coasters? Do you like Dipping Dots? Well, you're in luck. The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, a seaside
SF News Bonny Doon Fire Continues More than 2,400 residents are under a mandatory evacuation as the Bonny Doon wildfire continues to singe over 4,100 acres. So far, the blaze has torched two unidentified structures. As of
SF News Bonny Doon Wildfire Roars Hundreds of residents have fled their homes after a Santa Cruz county wildfire in Bonny Doon started last night. According to CBS 5, "authorities have ordered mandatory evacuations for about 600 people on
SF News UCSC Students Protest Budget Cuts Via Hunger Strike Dozens of students and staff at the University of California at Santa Cruz have gone on a hunger strike "in order to bring attention to $13 million in state funding being cut at
SF News Man Arrested in Conection with Santa Cruz Mountain Fires Almost a year after the Santa Cruz Mountains were set ablaze, authorities arrested Channing Verden, a contractor hired to clear brush in the mountainous terrain, for arson. According to the Merc, "Verden has
SF News Phone Outage Affects Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties Thousands of Santa Clara, San Benito, and Santa Cruz county residents are currently without phone service this morning. They can't even call 911 in case of an emergency. Why? Because of an old,
SF News Vandals Attack UC/Santa Cruz Campus While the banana slugs are on break for the holidays, hooligans went on a vandalism spree on Wednesday night at the UCSC campus. According to reports, the unidentified misfits damaged "up to 20
SF News Santa Cruz Cyclist Stabs Motorist Authorities are looking for, oh dear, "a bicyclist in Santa Cruz who fled after allegedly stabbing a motorist during a confrontation." It seems there was some sort of heated driver-to-cyclist confrontation today, which
misc Pierre the Rapist Caught Pierre Anton, of France, was arrested last night in connection with the brutal rape of a local woman along the San Lorenzo River early Saturday morning. In the states via a non-profit organization
SF News "Santa Cruz Police Seek Rape Suspect; May Be French" (A fun headline, yes?) Two people interrupted a rape in progress in Santa Cruz near the river levee last Saturday afternoon. The assailant -- who used a French passport to enter Rosie McCann's,
SF News Santa Cruz Wildfire Update: 0% Containment Just letting you know that the fire -- which as of late this afternoon has consumed thousands of acres since it started at around 5:30 a.m. this morning -- is "completely
SF News Santa Cruz Wildfire: Animal, Human Evacuation Info For those of you fire victims with large animals (i.e., horses, emus, et al.) or even not so large animals (i.e., Sprinkles, et al.), a Capitola reader just informed us that
