In partnership with the County Farm Bureau, the national American Farm Bureau organization has honored Rep. Jimmy Panetta as ...

Supporters of a proposition to ban forced labor in California prisons believe they have a strong message centered on ...

Supporters of a proposition to ban forced labor in California prisons believe they have a strong message centered on rehabilitation. But as Election Day nears, polls show Prop 6 as a toss-up or ...

A roundup of the lates County business name filings. Find this week's developments and small businesses coming to Santa Cruz County.

Lookout and nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet CalMatters hosted an event Wednesday at Bookshop Santa Cruz to help educate ...

Proposition 5, which would lower the threshold for public approval of affordable housing and infrastructure to 55% in California makes sense, writes Elaine Johnson, executive director of Housing Santa ...

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake. Most remember it for the damage it caused, but it was also the catalyst for the Castro Adobe’s journey to become a state historic park.

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake. Most remember it for the damage it caused, but it was also the catalyst for the Castro Adobe’s journey to become a state historic park.

I’m traveling to the famously fashionable city of New York next week, where I’ll be proudly sporting the fab textile art of Santa Cruz’s one-and-only IB Bayo (with a bunch of Bayo’s business cards in ...

New Leaf Community Markets will open a new, larger grocery store on 41st Avenue in the King’s Plaza Shopping Center in Capitola on Nov. 9. The old location in the nearby Begonia Plaza will close Nov.

Proposition 36 pledges to send more people convicted of drug possession to treatment instead of prison. Behavioral health ...

The country’s largest area designated for solar energy, Desert Center shows how sprawls of photovoltaic panels affect ...