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

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 ...

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 ...

The Community Fire Preparedness and Resilience Fair was hosted by Santa Cruz County Supervisor Justin Cummings and the Bonny ...

Normally, this time of year for Bay Area residents means blooms of orange poppies, graduation announcements and hand-wringing over the San Francisco Giants’ record. But this year there’s something ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

It’s not completely clear what the impact of this winter’s El Niño will be,” writes Our Ocean Backyard columnist Gary Griggs, “but all signs to date are indicating a major event.” ...