STAIRS THAT WERE DESTROYED by El Niño storms in 2016 have reopened, restoring public access to a Santa Cruz County beach.

The $1.297 million state-funded project involved completely rebuilding a portion of the wooden staircase, which connects the Manresa Uplands campground to its state beach.

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Lydia Sidhom is a rising third-year at UC Berkeley studying Data Science and Political Science. She is a Dow Jones News Fund intern for Bay City News. Lydia was a lead beat reporter, deputy news editor and projects developer for The Daily Californian and will be a deputy projects editor there this fall. She enjoys telling stories through data. In her free time, Lydia loves to read, bake and travel.