Rancho Refugio is surrounded by a state park, a national monument and a marine sanctuary. Named for a nineteenth-century ...

Santa Cruz Main Beach and Cowell's Beach are closed. Seabright is also closing its beaches, and Capitola is bracing for possible flooding Monday night and into Tuesday. Santa Cruz County ...

SANTA CRUZ — A 46-year-old man accused of holding police at bay during a more than five-hour standoff at Main Beach Monday is set to face criminal charges this week. Santa Cruz officers were ...

Santa Cruz County has finalized plans to rebuild a sobering center – absent since the pandemic’s launch in spring 2020 – on property in front of the Santa Cruz Main Jail.

Although West Cliff Drive has been the focus of considerable attention since the winter storm damage of last January, historically it has been the Santa Cruz Main Beach that was the attraction ...

The Santa Cruz Wharf will temporarily close beginning at 8 p.m. tonight, March 26, 2025. City of Santa Cruz officials say it’s for conducting urgent repairs to a water main beneath the Wharf ...

1. Coast Dairies State Beaches in Santa Cruz Numerous Coast Dairies State Beaches make up some of the best beaches in Santa Cruz, far too many for us to go into detail about them all, but luckily ...