On March 26, 1917, a train pulled under the Spanish Arches over Beach Street, pulling two special pullman sleepers and a ...

To have this spotlight for a moment, to talk about something like serious illness and death and dying which many people shy away from, and to kind of break down any barrier around that, feels ...

For the CIF State Division III boys volleyball championship match, SoCal champ Central East took a nine-mile trip across town ...

The Trump administration downplayed the decline in homelessness, contending far more people are on the streets today than a ...

A cyclist glides through a tree tunnel on Hagar Drive as they descend towards the base of the UC Santa Cruz campus. Hagar ...

At its recent annual Scholarship Luncheon at Valencia Hall in Aptos, the Native Daughters of the Golden West Santa Cruz Parlor awarded over $80,000 in scholarships.

SAN JOSE — Soquel High senior left-hander Jake Escalante uncharacteristically unleashed three straight balls to Valley Christian’s Nathan Miller, the leadoff hitter in the second inning, and summoned ...

The Santa Cruz Sentinel’s Letters to the Editor for May 30, 2026.

A day after stunning UCLA, the nation’s top-seeded team, in the NCAA’s Los Angeles Regional, Saint Mary’s finds itself matched up against the Bruins again following a 14-1 loss to Cal Poly San Luis ...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Colin Farrell, 50; Brooke Shields, 61; Tom Berenger, 77; Clint Eastwood, 96. Happy Birthday: Participating in causes that concern you will have a positive impact. Give ...

Watsonville’s Justin Sanders, the man known as the “Bullring Bullet” around these parts, made the move by Fremont;s Shane Golobic on lap 17 and drove away from the pack to record his fifth NARC King ...

This is our second mayoral race under district elections and it’s got me wondering what a mayor is actually for. I’d signed the original ballot measure in 2000 that got the ball rolling on districting ...