A dumpster fire broke out in the Almar Shopping Center Tuesday afternoon. There were no injuries or any significant damage, ...

Firefighters are battling a brush fire in San Bernardino County that prompted evacuation orders Wednesday night, Cal Fire ...

City firefighters responded Monday afternoon to a structure fire in a 2-unit dwelling in downtown Santa Barbara. Heavy dark ...

Read Santa Cruz Local’s non-partisan and in-depth guide to Monterey County Board of Supervisor candidates running on June 2, ...

These four parks districts are throwing down 2026 challenges to get people out on the trails. We explored one challenge trail ...

The warnings to flee come suddenly: Texts pinging thousands of phones, automated calls from strange numbers, hard-to-read ...

Santa Cruz Local breaks down two ballot measures that voters in the City of Santa Cruz will consider in the Nov. 4, 2025 election.

California has a state park so under the radar that you could live in the Bay Area your entire life and never hear about it.

Some relievers are easy to admire because of pure stuff. Fernando Cruz is easy to root for because every pitch he throws in pinstripes feels like the payoff to a baseball life that was never supposed ...

After a decade without any new, truly small pickups in the market, Ford and Hyundai both arrived with their own ideas on what the compact truck segment should resemble in the 2020s, using a ...

David Farley is an alumnus of University of California, Santa Cruz. Once, Santa Cruz was a sleepy, somewhat conservative beach town. That changed in 1965 when the University of California flicked on ...