SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) — A Santa Cruz County mother who is charged with murdering her 1-year-old baby never called 911 after she found her daughter’s lifeless body in 2024, according to ...

Artist Yeshe Jackson signs his mural of Albert, the beloved white peacock after it was unveiled, Saturday afternoon, April 19, 2025, in Boulder Creek, Calif. Albert was a white peacock who lived ...

A man convicted of two murders in the 1970s has been identified as the killer of a woman found dead in a Santa Cruz County park 40 years ago. Richard Sommerhalder was initially named as a person ...

Santa Cruz County Sheriff's investigators revisit the case in 2019. In 2019, while re-evaluating the case, Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office Criminalists found several pieces of evidence to ...

Detectives with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office apprehended 67-year-old Kevin Hurley on March 21 after obtaining a warrant for his arrest. Hurley was arrested on multiple sex-related c… ...

Santa Cruz sheriff's deputies responded to Aptos Village Park on May 28, 1976, over reports of a dead woman. There, the body of 25-year-old Karen Percifield was found.

Santa Cruz County authorities arrested a 67-year-old man accused of sexually abusing a child, and investigators fear many more were victimized due to his involvement in local communities.

CHP investigators have confirmed that the two men found in the back of a pickup truck in the Santa Cruz Mountains last week were murder victims.Both victims are from Boulder Creek, and the family ...

Bookshop Santa Cruz, in conjunction with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education and the Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, will be screening Joanna Rudnick's "Story & Pictures By" at Santa ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) — A 13-year-old girl who was found dead along a river in south Santa Cruz County three decades ago was recently identified through DNA testing, investigators said. The ...

Skeletal remains discovered 30 years ago in a Santa Cruz County riverbed have been identified as those of a 13-year-old New York girl who was reported missing in 1975, officials said.