In a Guest Commentary, Jane Barr writes about the Watsonville City Council and Pajaro Valley Unified School District board races, as well as Measure E.

Pajaro Valley High School students are all smiles after picking their flowers and pumpkins at the UC Santa Cruz Farm. The ...

Nacho Nieto gathers bouquets of marigolds at Nacho’s Rancho, the plot he and his family farm in Royal Oaks. The Nietos have ...

I’m shrinking, and it’s not because I was exposed to atomic testing in the desert like the Incredible Shrinking Man of the 1957 movie,” writes columnist Stephen Kessler.

The union and SCCS have been in contract negotiations since May, and Greater Santa Cruz Federation of Teachers President ...

CAPITOLA — Forty artists will set up their easels in Capitola next week for the 11th annual Plein Air Festival. Each year, ...

The city of Watsonville has begun construction on an $11.7 million project to widen the Harkins Slough overpass to add bike ...

In an effort to support families in maintaining essential communication during a period of heightened Immigration and Customs ...

Sophomore Naíma Rubin scored the game-winning goal on a penalty shot in triple overtime, and the No. 2 seed Santa Cruz High’s ...

Longtime Aptos High boys soccer assistant and junior varsity head coach Edgar Cuellar Rojas has been hired to replace ...

The northern town of Sakhnin had Israel’s highest voter turnout, at 87%. Mayor Mazen Ghnaim said voters saw it as an ...

Five Santa Cruz County girls volleyball teams were seeded for the Central Coast Section playoffs, including four Santa Cruz ...