Costumed “plungers” at Main Beach in Santa Cruz enjoy a brisk time in the Monterey Bay for a good cause on Saturday. The annual Polar Plunge for the Northern California Special ...

Once again, Watsonville High’s boys’ soccer team gave up an early goal. And once again, the Wildcatz came back to win 3-1.

Every year from late December through March, scientists from the Beltran and Costa labs at UC Santa Cruz set out for the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park. There, thousands of elephant ...

The full moon reflected the light from the sun this week as a pair of Canada geese spend the night on the shore of Westlake Pond in Santa Cruz. According to kidsinnaturesc.com, “The neighborhood ...

The Peninsula Open Space Trust announced it had purchased Mead Ranch, a 1,921-acre parcel between San Jose and Morgan Hill, ...

Sixty-two-years ago, during my senior year at the University of California, Santa Barbara, I took a marine geology course that quite honestly changed my life. I still have the textbook that I ...

Anyone with a functioning pair of corneas can see that the San Francisco 49ers are currently looking up at the Seattle Seahawks and the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC West pecking order. If the division ...

Nearly every hotel market in the Bay Area, with the exception of the North Bay Wine Country and getaway resorts along ...

The Santa Cruz Sentinel’s Letters to the Editor for March 7, 2026.

What did many early Hollywood luminaries all have in common? Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Will Rogers, Cecil B. DeMille, William S. Hart and Alfred Hitchcock, among others, all ...

At the turn of the century, the apple industry was booming in the Pajaro River Valley, having become the dominant area crop with around 14,000 acres of apple trees planted.

Last month, I had the honor of delivering the city of Santa Cruz’s 2026 State of the City. It was an opportunity to reflect on where Santa Cruz stands today, and how we are preparing for what ...