While some businesses in downtown Santa Cruz are closing, others report strong sales and a thriving holiday season.

The City of Santa Cruz voted unanimously to declare an existing state of emergency for the partial collapse of the Santa Cruz ...

Firm with 650 agents becomes the biggest independent in Northern California, with $5.5 billion in annual sales.

Former City of Santa Cruz wharf supervisor Jon Bombaci estimates that the ocean took about a third of the portion of wharf ...

Dry weather with mostly sunny skies and light winds will persist through the week. Expect daytime highs to be around or ...

The board appointed Alexandra Friel — longtime educational administrator and the daughter-in-law of late board chair John ...

Junior Max Aceves scored 27 points, and Watsonville High’s boys basketball team beat Monte Vista Christian 86-67 in Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission Division action Monday. Freshman George Madec ...

It’s Saturday afternoon and downtown Santa Cruz is wildly alive.  Crosswalks and sidewalks are teeming with folks carrying ...

Records show Cal Fire declined to back projects to protect communities later devastated by the Palisades fire while millions ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks to researcher Rikke Jeppesen about her work on how sea otters, which were hunted to almost near extinction, have been able to thrive by eating up to 120,000 crabs a year.

The Galapagos is an outdoor destination—visitors are typically on boats, in the water, or hiking—so good weather is important ...

10. North County: About the only thing that has slowed down the Condors momentum through 14 games is Pacific Grove, who has beaten them twice in the last 10 days. On the bubble: St. Francis, Santa ...