Nestled along Ocean Street in the coastal paradise of Santa Cruz sits a culinary time capsule where the coffee flows freely and the potato pancakes achieve a level of crispy-yet-tender perfection that ...

The Santa Cruz Diner stands as a beacon of affordable comfort food in a world of overpriced avocado toast and $15 smoothies.

California’s legalization of recreational cannabis in 2016 ushered in a multibillion-dollar industry estimated to be the largest legal weed market in the world.

Zoccoli’s is arguably Santa Cruz’s favorite deli — rightfully so, after 70-plus years serving custom-made sandwiches and house hoagies, like everyone’s favorite, the Mediterranean ...

In California, popular roadside restaurants often act as markers along our highways. The yellow Hadley Fruit Orchards sign off Interstate 10 is a call to pause for date shakes, a sandwich and a ...

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office told NBC News that deputies responded to the home just before 3:30 p.m. local time and found one resident had made it out of the house, but another was ...

This year, Black women will have to work well into the month of August to catch up to the wages that white men earned in 2018 alone. In concrete terms, this means that Black women experience a pay ...

Among white Republicans, about half (53%) say it’s been about right, while a sizable minority (31% vs. 5% of white Democrats) say the country has gone too far. Black Democrats are even more likely ...

Pokémon TCG is bigger than its ever been, with massive new expansions dropping all the time, so it's no surprise that interest in the Pokémon Black Bolt and White Flare release date is so high ...

Catch up on the political news of the past week in the latest At the Races newsletter, including budget reconciliation and ...

The three white men who chased down and killed Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was jogging through their Georgia neighborhood last year, were all found guilty of murder charges.