WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the school system in Kansas City, ...

Over the past week, a wave of California sea lions and some fur seals have turned up on Monterey and Santa Cruz County ...

Santa Cruz City Schools, like all public California schools, will continue offering free meals for all students program for ...

To understand how single-payer might work, it is important to realize that roughly half of every dollar spent on healthcare in the United States flows through governments already,” writes Craig ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Driven in part by his own experience with poverty as a child, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is ...

Over time, the program has drifted far from its original purpose — and grown far beyond lawmakers’ expectations,” writes Gary Feldman in a Guest Commentary. “When the 340B program was established in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Tuesday to censure Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., following a House Ethics Committee ...

Judi Cobb is all smiles as she and other participants of the city of Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation’s Walking Adventure Group make their way up the Laurent Street hill in Santa Cruz during one of ...

Once again, FORT’s Peter Gibson (Guest Commentary, Aug. 28) offers up a litany of dire consequences of proceeding with the Interim Trail in our rail corridor. He assembles “facts” and figures from the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has seized more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency donations intended for Hamas, the Justice Department said Tuesday in announcing a disruption of financing for the group.

As Santa Cruz County prepares for another rainy season and a predicted El Niño, the Department of Community Development and ...

Food truck Taqueria Los Viejones’ first brick-and-mortar location at 736 Water St., Santa Cruz, recently began serving customers. All students (TK through 12th grade) in Santa Cruz City Schools can ...