SANTA CRUZ — Community members from around Santa Cruz County and beyond pulled on gloves, grabbed litter pickers and other tools at more than 50 cleanup sites from Davenport to Watsonville on a ...

Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada said he will not seek reelection and will retire this year after 53 years in law enforcement. Estrada, 77, was sworn into elected office in 1993 and was ...

Video above of past tourism coverage in Santa Cruz County. Visit Santa Cruz County says tourism is continuing to grow year after year since the pandemic in 2020. From 2023 to 2024, it increased by ...

The Santa Cruz County Office of Education held its annual Educator of the Year awards ceremony in Santa Cruz, celebrating the hard work of faculty and staff nominated by students, former students ...

SANTA CRUZ — Cliona Ward, a green card holder and Santa Cruz County resident who has been held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for almost two weeks, was granted release by a federal ...

SANTA CRUZ — As Santa Cruz County prepares to embark on a national search for a new director at its Health Services Agency, the county’s top staffer has been named a temporary, immediate ...

A longtime Santa Cruz County resident has finally returned home after being detained by U.S Customs and Border Protection at San Francisco International Airport and then sent to an Immigration ...

The river begins in the grasslands of the San Rafael Valley in Santa Cruz County and flows south into Mexico before hooking north and crossing back into the U.S. just east of Nogales on its way to ...