A bee lifts off from a sunflower along 17th Avenue in Live Oak while gathering pollen. According to the Bee Conservancy, ...

Soquel High’s girls water polo team picked up two more wins on Friday to move into the Platinum Division semifinals at the ...

In reference to the exchange of letters-to-the-editor between Umhae Langis and local rabbis on who gets to define antisemitism: It is certainly true that, as a general rule, those in ...

The Pirates learned a vaulable lesson in their 28-21 homecoming loss to Greenfield on Friday night: You can’t fire a cannon ...

Robin Sukow said his experience of running multimillion-dollar projects and having a budget would allow him to address Pajaro ...

A view of enthusiastic promoters for the Santa Cruz County Fair in the 1920s.

Amid a weekend heat advisory radiating through Santa Cruz County, Downtown Santa Cruz powered through the heat to rein in the ...

Sharks, trilobites and ammonites were all living in an ancient ocean and their remains were preserved in the sediments as the ...

Today, over 3,000 local children are enrolled and receive a brand-new, age-appropriate book each month, building home libraries and a love of reading from their earliest days, at no cost to their ...

It’s our own local laws — building codes and objective design standards — that dictate the high-cost, large scale and low aesthetics of new buildings, but that’s grist for another mill,” writes ...

The weather service issued a heat advisory that goes into effect at 11 a.m. Saturday and will be in place at least until 10 p ...

Santa Cruz County saw $762.9 million in local crop production in 2025, rising 2.8% since 2024, according to the newly ...