A five-story, 57-unit apartment building proposed in Live Oak is set to be considered by the Santa Cruz County Planning ...

Housing Matters, Santa Cruz County’s largest homeless services provider, is expected to end some essential services for ...

The second “No Kings” rally will take place across the U.S., including in Santa Cruz County, opposing authoritarian behavior ...

A change to rules about “controversial” topics in Pajaro Valley Unified School District is raising concerns over classroom ...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children could be forced to close amid the federal ...

Political leaders in Santa Cruz County are overwhelmingly in support of Proposition 50, a redistricting measure on the Nov. 4 ...

The first storm of the season is expected to drench Santa Cruz County with inches of rain in the county and in the Santa Cruz ...

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors advanced updates to an ordinance that allows abandoned vehicles to be scrapped ...

U.S. Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-San José) and Jimmy Panetta (D-Santa Cruz) will answer questions from residents in Watsonville on ...

Supervisor Justin Cummings poses for a portrait in his office on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. He is working with the county’s recorder office to remove racist language from housing deeds. (Amaya Edwards ...

Attendees and panelists at Cabrillo College’s career panel for Hispanic students on Sept. 19 discuss barriers in the job application process. (Dave Ordonez — Santa Cruz Local) Around $350 million in ...

Santa Cruz County transportation officials are scrambling to advance plans of parts of the Coastal Rail Trail amid a ...