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About 90 minutes south of San Francisco along California's Central Coast, Santa Cruz is known for its buzzing surf culture and famous boardwalk. It's also fun to head inland to explore downtown with ...

Afternoon sunlight shined through the canopy of the leaves of London plane trees on Tuesday as a cyclist pedals along Walnut Avenue in downtown Santa Cruz. Though many believe that the trees are ...

A Bay Area nonprofit that helps homeless people across the region find jobs and housing in exchange for volunteering to clean up local streets is abruptly shutting down, citing a loss of millions of ...

Halloween celebrations in downtown Santa Cruz drew an estimated 15,000 people Friday night, with no major incidents of violence reported, police said. According to the Santa Cruz Police Department, ...

A lighthouse on a cliff overlooking the wild ocean on West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz, California. - Leonid Andronov/Getty Images If you're planning a trip to Santa Cruz, California, chances are surfable ...

According to What Now, the Cruz Room appears on a recent liquor-license application that lists 1520 Mission Street as the planned address. The filing names the former D20 Pizza site, which is often ...