The City of Watsonville has chosen Corey Schaefer, a 27-year fire department veteran, as its next chief, following the ...

The new downtown expansion district, an affordable housing measure and a rail-trail compromise all came to fruition in 2025. Now, Fred Keeley, Santa Cruz’s first four-year elected mayor, looks to his ...

As the first part of Soquel Drive’s major makeover heads toward completion, Santa Cruz County is seeking a consultant to manage the next phase of the project and get pre-construction work sorted out ...

California State University Monterey Bay was the only campus in the 22-school CSU system to meet all six goals of the system’s decadelong Graduation Initiative 2025. The campus led the state in ...

New Pajaro Valley Unified School District board president Carol Turley’s first meeting in the role was marked by frequent interruptions of fellow trustees and a stricter enforcement of agenda limits, ...

Check out Wallace Baine’s Best 9 recommendations for things to do around Santa Cruz County on New Year's Eve (literally and ...

For more than 30 years, science has warned that organophosphate pesticides damage developing brains, especially in pregnant women and children, writes local activist and retired nurse. Yet the ...

Bad Animal will reopen its restaurant in January with former Hanloh chef de cuisine Nick Hahn, ending its long-running ...

Starting in 2025, California tortillas will contain folic acid to help prevent birth defects — a change aimed at closing a ...

A year after a historic storm caused an estimated $16 million in damage to Santa Cruz Harbor infrastructure and destroyed ...

For the first time since opening 25 years ago, the Seymour Marine Discovery Center will debut a new permanent exhibit this ...

In her weekly look at local business, Jessica M. Pasko reports on where Joby Aviation stands ahead of what's poised to be a ...