In Santa Cruz, our City Charter is the foundational document that defines how our government operates, how decisions are made, how leadership is structured and how we serve our community. As a charter ...

Soquel High senior midfielder Addie Somerville scored four goals, and the Knights girls lacrosse team beat visiting Santa ...

In the face of federal funding cuts, Santa Clara County announced a recommended budget that could cut hundreds of positions ...

My column two weeks ago emerged from an email by a reader who was very interested in the sand crabs that had nearly covered ...

On the first page of “Sacco and Vanzetti,” Howard Fast introduces a minor character. I’m relying on memory here; I was maybe 15 when I read it. A man is sitting in a jail cell. He’s in his 30s or 40s, ...

Did the editor read the same-day Guest Commentary of Ami Chen Mills who spoke of housing affordability and exerting more local control over development? Or stopping government surveillance by ...

From downtown Santa Cruz to Watsonville, protesters took to streets and parking lots Friday, commemorating International ...

Kids ruled the streets of Downtown Santa Cruz on Saturday for the Kids Day celebration. Kids Day is an annual event put on by ...

The newly reopened south end of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf juts into Monterey Bay this week, complete with a viewing hole ...

Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, Democratic chair of the Assembly elections committee and former Santa Cruz County registrar of ...

Faced with unprecedented funding reductions at the federal level, Santa Cruz County administrators unveiled a $1.29 billion ...

A circa 1940s postcard view of today’s Riverview Historic District in Capitola Village. A man and woman stand upon a boat ...