Santa Cruz is set to become a center of the independent film world as film screenings, panel discussions, Q&As with actors ...

The plague, the rare bacterial infection infamously known for killing tens of millions in 14th-century Europe, never went ...

Rickie Lee Jones has worked with everyone from Randy Newman to Dr. John to Tori Amos, so she will have a lot of ground to cover when she plays the Rio Theatre Thursday. BEAT will be playing the music ...

Pike is the only person to survive after receiving lethal injection drugs during an execution, according to the Death Penalty ...

The six-time All-Star spent the 1974 Major League baseball season in pinstripes near the end of a turbulent career that ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday urged Catholic leaders to courageously accompany families in their weaknesses ...

SALINAS — An 18-year-old from Soledad and two college students from Downey were identified by law enforcement authorities as the three teenagers killed in a head-on collision outside of Salinas late ...

The victim of a homicide, found Saturday night on Larkin Valley Road, has been identified as 39-year-old Christopher Faron ...

Buckwheat crops sway in the breeze as bees bop between the plants’ tiny white flowers. Underneath, small seeds begin to ...

The UC Santa Cruz women’s soccer team beat visiting Fresno Pacific 4-1 on senior day on Tuesday to push its unbeaten streak ...

It’s happening right before our eyes. Twice a day, seven days a week, home-schooled Aptos teen Isla Hardy is having a blast ...

California’s five national marine sanctuaries including Monterey Bay cover 17,000 square miles and prohibit oil, gas and ...