It starts with you. It starts here. UC Santa Cruz draws students who plan to change the world—in ways big and small. Whether you’re ready to fill out the application or in the planning stages, find ...

These giants from a bygone age are unique and found nowhere else on Earth. The western Santa Cruz giant tortoise is a subspecies of Galapagos tortoise, and they are critically endangered.

A Jan. 16 battery fire in Moss Landing has prompted health and environmental concerns. (Nik Altenberg — Santa Cruz Local file) MOSS LANDING >> This week, scientists collected another round of soil ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- A driver suffered major injuries after she rear-ended a school bus and crashed into a tree Monday morning on Highway 17 in Santa Cruz County, according to the ...

It’s a prospect students and their families say they face at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I'm 49 years old and have nothing saved for retirement — what should I do? Don't panic.

Officials in Santa Cruz said they extinguished a structure fire at the Aqua Breeze Inn around 2 p.m. Sunday. Authorities said the hotel guests were evacuated, and one person required rescue by the ...

33,623 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?33,623 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?

The American ‘revenge travel’ surge is over. Fear and uncertainty are big factors A Louisiana plantation-turned-resort burns, prompting a reckoning North Korea arrests engineer, other ...

A man was hospitalized early Sunday after he was shot during a confrontation in the driveway of a hotel near the Santa Monica coastline, prompting a police investigation and search for the ...

SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County authorities have identified the body that washed up on Its Beach last week and confirmed it is the same individual that went missing after cliff jumping in the ...

A group of schoolchildren and several adults are safe after their bus caught fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains Friday morning. According to the Santa Clara County Fire Department, the bus had ...