Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History preparators Shanti Nagwani, left, and Enrique Lopez hang up the introductory text and acknowledgment of sponsors for the museum’s new exhibit, “Princes of ...

Iconic Santa Cruz surfers, from top, Peter Mel, Randy Gray and Kim Stoner head to Saturday’s paddle out atop replica surfboard created by Bob Pearson. Mel powered a 16-foot-tall replica of an ...

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Santa Cruz County is offering a new universal pre-K program that provides free early education to all families, with no income or immigration status requirements, as part of a statewide push to ...

Fire type: Wildfire Fire name: Bear A new wildfire was reported today at 11:38 p.m. in Santa Cruz County, California. Bear Fire has been burning on private land.

California dominates rental unaffordability with Santa Cruz topping the list, where minimum wage workers need 4.9 full-time jobs to afford a two-bedroom apartment.

PG&E is reporting a power outage in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Monday. The number of customers impacted is reported to be 2,245.

Santa Cruz health officer: Summer COVID infections elevated but manageable A nurse loads a syringe with a COVID-19 booster vaccine at an inoculation station in Jackson, Mississippi, in 2022.

The Santa Cruz River, dried up and polluted, came back to life recently, sustained by highly treated wastewater from two water reclamation facilities.

Three people were rushed to the hospital Tuesday morning after a fire erupted inside a mobile home unit in Watsonville.

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