The City of Watsonville has chosen Corey Schaefer, a 27-year fire department veteran, as its next chief, following the ...

The new downtown expansion district, an affordable housing measure and a rail-trail compromise all came to fruition in 2025. Now, Fred Keeley, Santa Cruz’s first four-year elected mayor, looks to his ...

As the first part of Soquel Drive’s major makeover heads toward completion, Santa Cruz County is seeking a consultant to manage the next phase of the project and get pre-construction work sorted out ...

New Pajaro Valley Unified School District board president Carol Turley’s first meeting in the role was marked by frequent interruptions of fellow trustees and a stricter enforcement of agenda limits, ...

California State University Monterey Bay was the only campus in the 22-school CSU system to meet all six goals of the system’s decadelong Graduation Initiative 2025. The campus led the state in ...

Check out Wallace Baine’s Best 9 recommendations for things to do around Santa Cruz County on New Year's Eve (literally and ...

Bad Animal will reopen its restaurant in January with former Hanloh chef de cuisine Nick Hahn, ending its long-running ...

For more than 30 years, science has warned that organophosphate pesticides damage developing brains, especially in pregnant women and children, writes local activist and retired nurse. Yet the ...

Santa Cruz’s official government website now offers a brisk virtual tour through influential, intriguing, tragic and overlooked moments from the city’s past. The updated and lavishly illustrated Santa ...

Starting in 2025, California tortillas will contain folic acid to help prevent birth defects — a change aimed at closing a ...

Federal immigration officials visited the city of Santa Cruz at least once since late July, according to communication records provided by the police department. This increases the total number of ...

A year after a historic storm caused an estimated $16 million in damage to Santa Cruz Harbor infrastructure and destroyed ...