Andrew Heaney and five relievers combined on a four-hitter, Oneil Cruz hit his team-leading 17th home run and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 2-0 on Saturday night.

Elly De La Cruz hit a two-run single in the seventh inning to break open a tie game and the Cincinnati Reds went on to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-2 on Saturday night.

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The future of an approved, five-story apartment complex next to Marianne’s Ice Cream on Ocean Street is uncertain. (BDE Architecture) SANTA CRUZ >> The developer of a planned 389-unit apartment ...

Three people were rushed to the hospital Tuesday morning after a fire erupted inside a mobile home unit in Watsonville.

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Sacramento, Calif. – California is home to the world’s fastest microchip, zero-emission supercars, and now, the search is on ...

Santa Cruz County is offering a new universal pre-K program that provides free early education to all families, with no income or immigration status requirements, as part of a statewide push to ...

The Santa Cruz River, dried up and polluted, came back to life recently, sustained by highly treated wastewater from two water reclamation facilities.

Fire type: Wildfire Fire name: Bear A new wildfire was reported today at 11:38 p.m. in Santa Cruz County, California. Bear Fire has been burning on private land.

PG&E is reporting a power outage in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Monday. The number of customers impacted is reported to be 2,245.

Santa Cruz health officer: Summer COVID infections elevated but manageable A nurse loads a syringe with a COVID-19 booster vaccine at an inoculation station in Jackson, Mississippi, in 2022.

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