On a spring day in Santa Cruz, visitors have a perplexing ... This blufftop route takes you past great old houses, bold new houses, erosion damage from January’s storms, Steamer Lane surf ...

snails covered the old turrets, and kids used the broken building as a hideout. The Sentinel called it a “palace for transients.” After three decades of dereliction, in 1997, the Santa Cruz ...

Katie Sarna left San Francisco due to high rent and bought a house in Boulder Creek, California.She and her husband faced ...