A three-car crash happened around 7:58 p.m. on Sunday on southbound Highway 1 at the Bay Avenue/Porter Street exit in the ...

The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission needs to cover a $15 million funding gap to pay for the passenger rail project’s environmental work. It will turn to state and federal ...

The Soquel Union Elementary School District board is set to consider eliminating nearly 17 full-time-equivalent positions Wednesday as contract negotiations with the teachers union reach an impasse ...

Good Egg Productions, a new Santa Cruz theater company, opens with “Matt & Ben,” the satirical two-person comedy by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers that imagines how Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote ...

Encompass Community Services’ interim CEO will assume the role permanently, Santa Cruz County’s largest health and human services nonprofit announced Friday.

Mountain lions in Santa Cruz County recently gained new protections under the California Endangered Species Act after years as candidates for listing. Protecting six distinct puma populations around ...

Santa Cruz County failed its unhoused residents during weeks of severe winter storms by not activating its extreme weather shelters, despite having staff, supplies and facilities ready, writes Sara ...

A Santa Barbara judge tentatively ruled that the Trump administration’s intervention wasn’t enough to let Sable Offshore ...

The Housing Authority of Santa Cruz County is facing a number of serious concerns this year, including the expiration of ...

After a $23 million loss in 2025, Watsonville Community Hospital saw a slight improvement in its finances in January, ...

UC Santa Cruz alumni will reunite on April 11 to honor the life and legacy of Tom Lehrer, a beloved math educator as well as ...

City councilmembers say residents complain to them about speeding and reckless e-bike riders, and at their meeting this week said they want to explore pilot programs that preserve access to bikes for ...