Two thieves posing as wedding shoppers stole about $18,000 in gold jewelry from Golden Bliss on Pacific Avenue on Saturday ...

Weekly roundup 1/14/26 The local community is already making their voice heard in 2026. Recent backlash towards Flock Safety ...

The beginning of a new year often comes with familiar pressure to make big changes quickly. Financial goals tend to rise to ...

Every weekday morning across Santa Cruz County, a quiet rhythm unfolds. Meals are prepared and packed. Delivery routes are ...

Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office is looking into whether a new artificial-intelligence image editing tool from Elon ...

Kaden Rummler, 21, was blinded in his left eye after he was shot at close range by a federal agent during a protest last week ...

Santa Cruz Vice Mayor Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson says she has lost contact with relatives in Iran amid the regime’s escalating ...

A big rig crashed at 3:17 a.m. on southbound Highway 1 near Park Avenue between Aptos and Capitola. The truck went through a ...

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve new regulations for battery storage facilities, despite ...

A proposed tax on billionaires in California has ignited a political uproar in Silicon Valley, with tech titans threatening ...

Santa Cruz-based Joby Aviation has purchased a second manufacturing facility in Ohio, the American Astronomical Society honors three UC Santa Cruz scientists and Santa Cruz Rehearsal Studios is up for ...

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