Activists in Santa Cruz, California called for “kindness" in a Saturday beach protest against President Trump, then wrote “86 ...

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 ...

Preparing for the future while making an impact Alanah, a junior double majoring in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies, is participating in the Humanities EXCEL program as a Community ...

One month after a lithium-ion battery storage facility just south of the Santa Cruz-Monterey county line erupted ... in the soil at the nearby Elkhorn Slough Reserve. Yet, test results released by ...

Some residents along the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz County defied the evacuation orders that have since been lifted for the area on Thursday. Officials said the river gets a lot of runoff ...

After a massive fire at a Monterey County energy storage facility this month, scientists at San José State University have found heightened levels of heavy metals in the nearby Elkhorn Slough Reserve ...

The 14th District Agricultural Association/Santa Cruz County Fair Board of Directors announced Friday that it has accepted the resignation of CEO/Fair Manager Zeke Fraser, effective Feb. 2.

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY – High surf played a role in a death Monday at a beach in Santa Cruz County. Authorities were called to Sunset State Beach around 11:30 a.m. for a report of a person trapped ...

WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS. SOME BREAKING NEWS JUST COMING INTO OUR NEWSROOM. WE’RE NOW LEARNING THAT A MAN HAS DIED IN SANTA CRUZ AFTER A LARGE WAVE TRAPPED HIM BENEATH SOME DEBRIS. FIRST ...

UC Santa Cruz ... in San Benito County, which has served as a cattle ranch for most of the last 100 years, becomes the 42nd reserve within the University of California’s Natural Reserve System (NRS) ...

The school says that the location is slated to be a "2,400-acre oak-studded grassland property" in San Benito County, and will become the seventh UC Santa Cruz reserve. “I was fortunate to have had an ...