Visiting Southern California’s archipelago takes planning and an adventurous spirit, but it’s worth the effort.

With weeks of budget compromises and slashes seeming inevitable in the next month, it’s hard to see how the reparations cause ...

As many as 3,500 wooden carousels were built at the turn of the 20th century, but only 150 have survived, like the one in ...

Also known as the Hihn Building, the structure was built in 1880s out of local redwood and served as offices for the resort superintendent of Camp Capitola.

Leonardo Torres y Quevedo was born on 28 December 1852, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, in a stone house (see the lower ...

There are so many things to do in Santa Cruz; it just might be our favorite city in the state! With miles and miles of ...

West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz didn’t have a specific name until “Cliff Drive” emerged in the late 1880s. As “East Cliff ...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the UC Santa Cruz foundry—the last in the UC system still offering classes—the campus hosted a celebratory bronze pour on May 15. The event, a highlight of the ...

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.

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.

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 ...