Reporters and photographers from the USA TODAY NETWORK-California will cover the "No Kings Day" protests throughout the state all day on June 14.

At approximately 9:50 a.m. Monday, a 67-year-old woman from San Jose was driving a Mini Cooper southbound on Highway 17 north of Vine Hill Road in unincorporated Santa Cruz County at an ...

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It has been 31 years since the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake hit Los Angeles, and 35 years since the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake ruptured under Santa Cruz County, causing extensive ...

Daly was joined by several Santa Cruz Fire Department members at the California Surf Lifesaving Association’s board meeting in Ventura March 27 who were presented with Heroic Act and Meritorious ...

Six months after the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors moved to ban the sale of filtered cigarette products in unincorporated territory, organizers with the “ban the butt” effort look to ...

By way of a split 3-2 vote at its meeting Tuesday, the county Board of Supervisors accepted a second read of a new ordinance that gives 11 cannabis retailers in unincorporated Santa Cruz County an ...

According to Santa Cruz County Superior Court records, Bernal was convicted of petty theft crimes in 2013 and 2014, vandalism in 2014, misdemeanor drug crimes in 2014 and 2015, and felony having ...

Taken separately, the Santa Cruz Port District logged $26.3 million in damages while the city of Santa Cruz suffered $18.1 million. The county recorded $35,000 in damages and the city of Capitola ...

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office placed several unincorporated low-lying areas under an evacuation warning Wednesday due to heavy rains and likely flooding from the arriving storm.