The Forever 21 in the Cooperhouse Shopping Center in downtown Santa Cruz is closing. The store has been in business for 12 years and will permanently close on Jan. 31, 2025. The closure comes ...

with its relationship to the other projects and its relationship to the Metro transit center, its kind of like ground zero for what’s happening in downtown Santa Cruz,” said Hochhauser.

Thairie Ritchie, a well known Santa Cruz community organizer, reportedly self-immolated Jan. 20 atop the Black Lives Matter mural on Center Street in downtown Santa Cruz, only a few yards from the ...

In her weekly look at local business, Jessica M. Pasko reports on the challenges facing businesses in downtown Santa Cruz, ...

A mix of rising rents, construction hurdles and slow city permitting is prompting some small businesses to reconsider opening ...

A new LGBTQ+ pub in Santa Cruz was vandalized less than a week after it opened. Police are looking into it as a hate crime. The Neighbor's Pub in Santa Cruz hosted a soft opening downtown last ...

Barry Swenson’s extraordinary vision and “special genius” for deal-making helped transform San Jose’s skyline and rebuild downtown Santa Cruz after the devastating 1989 earthquake when ...

In the latter half of the 1980s, the mightiest improvisers in jazz took the stage just about every Monday night at Santa Cruz’s Kuumbwa Jazz Center. For a budding jazz ... Kuumbwa had by 1977 settled ...