Santa Cruz County has already been hit hard by the storms. In January, treacherous rains and winds ripped apart the historic pier in Capitola, deluged neighborhoods in Felton Grove and brought ...

As nearly one third of Monterey County residents are foreign-born, local communities are also subject to fear surrounding ...

In the Santa Cruz-Watsonville area, the housing wage is $63.33 for a two-bedroom rental, up from $60.35 last year. This means that a local worker earning the California minimum wage at $15.50 per h… ...

Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties are included in an updated flash flood warning issued by the National Weather Service on Thursday at 8:52 a.m. The warning is in effect until 9:15 a.m.

Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara have major college campuses. Riverside, Madera, Placer, Yuba and San Benito counties all continued to grow, showing top 10 percentage population gains in both years.