The job market in Santa Cruz County is facing significant challenges as the workforce continues to shrink. Experts suggest that the decline in employment is not just due to one factor, but rather a ...

In interviews, Santa Cruz County locals share their creative survival strategies in the nation's least-affordable housing ...

Santa Cruz County supervisors voted to adopt a needs-based approach to its syringe services program rather than a one-for-one ...

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors selected a new school superintendent at a board meeting Wednesday morning.

Beginning this fall, families across Santa Cruz County will have access to a brighter educational future, starting earlier ...

Initial location: Santa Cruz County, Calif. Fire type: Wildfire Fire name: Bear A new wildfire was reported today at 2:52 a.m. in Santa Cruz County, California. Bear Fire has been burning on ...

Efforts by the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission to soften the edges of one of the county’s most chronically congested areas just got a little easier.

Projections for a 22-mile passenger rail line through Santa Cruz County in California has placed the cost of construction at $4.3 billion, almost $200 million per mile.

Santa Cruz Island isn’t easy to get to but the hearty travelers who make it are rewarded with a distinctive landscape off the California coast.

KGUN via CNN Newsource Former Santa Cruz County Treasurer Elizabeth Gutfahr is sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for stealing more than 38 million dollars from Santa Cruz County taxpayers.

The sentence comes months after former Santa Cruz County Treasurer Elizabeth Gutfahr pleaded guilty to embezzling $38.7 million from 2014 to 2024.

Elizabeth Gutfahr is sentenced to serve 10 years in federal prison followed by three years probation. She pleaded guilty to crimes related stealing about $38 million from Santa Cruz County taxpayers.