SANTA CRUZ — At a packed meeting Tuesday night, the Santa Cruz City Council greenlit the Downtown Plan Expansion project, which changes the zoning in the neighborhood south of Laurel Street to ...

The Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona is hot and sandy. But where the Santa Cruz River flows, you’ll find something like an oasis. Birds sing among dense copses of mesquite trees; flowers hang ...

The eight-story mixed-use building proposed for 201 Front St. in the city of Santa Cruz’s newly established south of Laurel area, or SOLA, was discussed at an online community meeting Wednesd… ...

But where the Santa Cruz River flows, you’ll find something like an oasis. Birds sing among dense copses of mesquite trees; flowers hang heavily from bushes; ocelots and jaguars pass through.