A bee lifts off from a sunflower along 17th Avenue in Live Oak while gathering pollen. According to the Bee Conservancy, ...

The Pirates learned a vaulable lesson in their 28-21 homecoming loss to Greenfield on Friday night: You can’t fire a cannon ...

Today, over 3,000 local children are enrolled and receive a brand-new, age-appropriate book each month, building home libraries and a love of reading from their earliest days, at no cost to their ...

A view of enthusiastic promoters for the Santa Cruz County Fair in the 1920s.

Robin Sukow said his experience of running multimillion-dollar projects and having a budget would allow him to address Pajaro ...

It’s our own local laws — building codes and objective design standards — that dictate the high-cost, large scale and low aesthetics of new buildings, but that’s grist for another mill,” writes ...

Sharks, trilobites and ammonites were all living in an ancient ocean and their remains were preserved in the sediments as the seafloor was uplifted and became Morocco’s Atlas Mountains of today,” ...

Amid a weekend heat advisory radiating through Santa Cruz County, Downtown Santa Cruz powered through the heat to rein in the ...

Soquel High’s girls water polo team picked up two more wins on Friday to move into the Platinum Division semifinals at the ...

The weather service issued a heat advisory that goes into effect at 11 a.m. Saturday and will be in place at least until 10 p ...

The Santa Cruz Sentinel’s Letters to the Editor for Oct. 2, 2026.

Harbor High’s girls volleyball team was pushed to five sets for the second time in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play, but ...