Tucked away along California’s magnificent Highway 1, Bean Hollow State Beach exists as a coastal secret that somehow escaped the fame factory that turned so many other beaches into tourist postcards ...

SANTA CRUZ — The Santa Cruz County Office of Education has teamed up with a network of local law enforcement and community-based organizations to launch a new countywide program that diverts ...

Efforts by the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission to soften the edges of one of the county’s most chronically congested areas just got a little easier.

Elizabeth Gutfahr is sentenced to serve 10 years in federal prison followed by three years probation. She pleaded guilty to crimes related stealing about $38 million from Santa Cruz County taxpayers.

Gutfahr, 63, stole nearly $40 million from Santa Cruz County over a 10-year span. She was sentenced in Tucson Monday afternoon.

Projections for a 22-mile passenger rail line through Santa Cruz County in California has placed the cost of construction at $4.3 billion, almost $200 million per mile.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — For the second year in a row, a robotics team from Santa Cruz County high school students earned third place at the prestigious MATE ROV Competition World Championship.

KGUN via CNN Newsource Former Santa Cruz County Treasurer Elizabeth Gutfahr is sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for stealing more than 38 million dollars from Santa Cruz County taxpayers.

The sentence comes months after former Santa Cruz County Treasurer Elizabeth Gutfahr pleaded guilty to embezzling $38.7 million from 2014 to 2024.

Santa Cruz Island isn’t easy to get to but the hearty travelers who make it are rewarded with a distinctive landscape off the California coast.

The Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County has secured a $7 million Forest Health Grant from Cal Fire to implement an ambitious, regionally connected suite of on-the-ground forest ...