Nearly a decade after its designation, Cotoni-Coast Dairies National Monument is set to open next month — protected by deed restrictions even as threats to public lands loom in D.C.

A new two-year pilot program in Santa Cruz County enables cooks to run microenterprise home kitchen operations (MEHKOs), leading to a wave of small food businesses like a daily coffee cart, campus ...

After 12 years on Santa Cruz’s Westside, Izakaya West End – formerly West End Tap & Kitchen – has closed its restaurant, with ...

Ryder Walding, an incoming senior at Soquel High School, finished 7th at the prone paddleboarding world championships in Hawaii this weekend.

Two people, identified as Lisa A. Latta and Ernest Latta Jr., are dead after a head-on collision between a motorcycle and ...

The fire, which broke out around 3 a.m. on Monday, severely damaged the Sushi Garden restaurant in Capitola, and likely ...

The 2025 Wharf to Wharf race brought 16,000 runners and hundreds of spectators to the streets of Santa Cruz County Sunday. A ...

Santa Cruz Shakespeare's delightful new production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” leans into the play’s riotous humor and fairyland trickery, inviting audiences to surrender to love’s chaos for one ...

The storm has calmed, for now. Yet many see the withdrawn proposal from Utah Sen. Mike Lee — one of the Capitol’s leading right-wing provocateurs — to sell large swaths of public land in the west to ...

Santa Cruz’s well-meaning homeless policies are backfiring, drawing more unhoused people than our small city can support and straining local resources, writes Craig James, who grew up here and came ...

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