Several stores in downtown Santa Cruz are closing, but many local businesses report strong holiday sales and continued success. "It's a great family business. I just think that they are focusing ...

I work from home these days, and appreciate the quiet, in part because solitude makes chance encounters – at hardware and grocery stores or downtown – with people I haven’t seen in a while that ...

Each week for nearly the past year, a grassroots group has met at a Santa Cruz beer house with one goal: closing some ...

The typical question is whether Californians can live car-free, and instead depend primarily on public transit and other ...

SANTA CRUZ — The city of Santa Cruz announced this week that the building permit for the downtown library and mixed-use project is “substantially complete” and construction on the first ...

A new library and more than 100 affordable housing units are coming to downtown Santa Cruz. It's all part of one big project. After years of planning, the city is finally getting closer to ...

Downtown Yarns is located on the street level of her East Village apartment building and always has an interesting window display (past themes have been birdcages, the jungle, and dinosaurs).

The Santa Cruz Police Department has released new information regarding inspections done on city stores selling tobacco.Last year, the Tobacco Enforcement Unit conducted 48 inspections within the ...