Only a handful of days ago, the Bay Area was enduring a last slice of heat, courtesy the second heat wave in three weeks and ...

Santa Cruz served as the starting line for a 350-mile bicycle journey Monday morning as a group of 40 veterans set off down ...

Wimp is one of three candidates campaigning for one of the two open Scotts Valley City Council seats in the city’s upcoming ...

Ronald Busenhart searches for a coolant leak in his 1937 Ford Coupe in his Rooney Street garage.

When it comes to Halloween, Santa Cruz County knows how to get into the spirit — pun definitely intended. All one has to do ...

In a deep, dark part of the Gulf of Mexico, the number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in the years following the ...

By ANNA WILDER, Associated Press/Report for America The U.S. airman who died after a rapid fall while rappelling from the ...

Data gathered from our own community helped change the numbers used to determine housing assistance,” writes columnist Susan Brutschy. “It helped make a federal program more responsive to the people ...

Open-water swimmer Catherine Breed has completed Swim California, an approximately 900-mile swimming expedition from the ...

Rain gardens can also stop water from entering your basement or affecting your foundation. In dry, drought-stricken regions, too, many gardeners are turning to rain gardens and other methods of ...

The UC Santa Cruz women’s volleyball team pulled off a 17-25, 13-25, 25-22, 29-27, 15-9 reverse sweep of No. 14 nationally ...

A woman who drove a pickup truck onto a soccer field during a weekend youth game in Kansas, killing two people and injuring ...