Former supervisor Bruce McPherson urges the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to move forward with a new battery energy storage system ordinance on Tuesday. He argues it is essential for climate ...

Former Santa Cruz mayor Chris Krohn argues that New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent progressive victory offers a blueprint for a new generation of political change in Santa Cruz. He says ...

Encompass Community Services is scrambling to reopen Head Start, a federally funded low-income child care program, after the ...

The City of Santa Cruz is beginning another round of repairs at the Santa Cruz Wharf, nearly a year after powerful swells ...

Two people, including a California Highway Patrol officer, were treated in hospital for minor injuries after a tree fell onto ...

Federal food assistance has resumed for thousands of Santa Cruz County residents after a shutdown-related disruption in early ...

Teachers, mental health clinicians and parents packed Watsonville’s City Council chambers Wednesday night to plead with ...

On Nov. 29 and 30, the Santa Cruz Opera Project will be hosting "Opera on Tap" at Woodhouse Blending and Brewing on the edge of downtown.

By Annie Roth Nearly every day for the past 20 years, scientists from UC Santa Cruz and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

An atmospheric river drenching much of California since Wednesday night had dropped several inches of rain and brought gusty ...

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