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Click through the links below to see this week's "California In Photos" for glimpses of daily life and scenery up the coast in Northern California and down the coast in Southern California ...
Since the events of the California Gold Rush, Northern California has been a leader on the world's economic, scientific, and cultural stages.From the development of gold mining techniques and logging practices in the 19th century that were later adopted around the world, to the development of world-famous and online business models (such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Google, Yahoo!, and eBay ...
Website. santacruzcountyca.gov. Santa Cruz County (/ ˌsæntəˈkruːz / ⓘ), officially the County of Santa Cruz, is a county on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 270,861. [ 4 ] The county seat is Santa Cruz. [ 5 ] Santa Cruz County comprises the Santa Cruz– Watsonville, CA ...
Marin County (/ məˈrɪn / ⓘ mə-RIN; Spanish: Condado de Marín) is a county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 262,231. [3] Its county seat and largest city is San Rafael. [4]
Khydeeja Alam, executive director of the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs, poses for a portrait Aug. 30, 2024, as one of this year’s AAPI Change Makers.
The 2017 California floods were a series of floods that affected parts of California in the first half of 2017. Northern California saw its wettest winter in almost a century, breaking the previous record set in the winter of 1982–1983. Flooding related to the same storm systems also impacted parts of western Nevada and southern Oregon.
[12] [13] Several PPE programs exist in Canada, most notably the first endowed school in the nation – the Frank McKenna School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Mount Allison University. [14] In Asia, Tsinghua University, Waseda University, NUS, Tel-Aviv University and Ashoka University are among those that have PPE or similar programs.
The region is the biggest high-tech manufacturing center in the United States. [74][75] The unemployment rate of the region was 9.4% in January 2009 and has decreased to a record low of 2.7% as of August 2019. [76] Silicon Valley received 41% of all U.S. venture investment in 2011, and 46% in 2012. [77]