The City of Santa Cruz is set to permit outdoor dining areas in alleyways next to businesses downtown. According to the city, the idea is meant to help revitalize the downtown area and help businesses ...

Santa Cruz County students are getting first dibs on a new nationwide astronomy program for rural K-12 schools that the ...

Transferring between universities can be stressful and disorienting, but at UC Santa Cruz, the Humanities Division works hard ...

A Live Oak woman and local resident of 30 years has been apprehended by federal authorities after a trip abroad despite ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, ...

Johnson, vice mayor of the City of Santa Cruz, wants to set the record straight on the city’s housing policy and accusations that the city is selling out to developers. “What we’re doing now isn’t ...

The four-day camping trip on Santa Cruz Island marks the beginning of a summer chock-full of lessons for future climate ...

We’re now at the peak bloom period of the highly regarded garden plant, the iris,” writes columnist Tom Karwin. “For the ...

Easter egg hunts, AC/DC at the Rose Bowl, Baths at the Echo, a Peep show, new trails open at Griffith Park and Easter ...

MS-13 gangster Guardardo Moreno and other gang members rushed a man, beat him and took his Acura, the prosecutor said. A co-defendant forced a 17-year-old into the car, he said. They held her for ...

Prom season is right around the corner, but for some students, the cost of getting dressed up can be a real challenge. In ...