A great blue heron lifts off after foraging along Rooney Street in Santa Cruz near the onramp to northbound Highway 1.

California Highway Patrol, park employees and officers from the Sheriff’s Office were dispatched just before 2 a.m. to Jetty Road to a report overheard gunshots.

North Korea on Tuesday denied its involvement in the recent cryptocurrency heist at Binance, dismissing as “a trite provocation” a U.S. announcement that North Korean hackers were behind the incident.

Major League Baseball is expected to enact a lockout when the current collective bargaining agreement expires on Dec. 1 ...

The rain is expected to be light and not long-lasting. The East Bay and South Bay are not expected to get much more than 2 hundredths to .15 inches, while some areas closer to the water are expected ...

Soon, Pajaro Middle School will have a new athletic field where students and the community at large can harness their athletic skills, create lasting memories and support their well-being.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push for California to set aside thousands of mail ballots from people President Donald Trump’s administration claims are noncitizens, a ...

On Halloween night, as trick-or-treaters took to the streets, a stinky surprise unfurled at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum. The garden’s corpse flower, which had been on the precipice of blooming for ...

The second murder trial for Antolin Garcia Torres in connection with the 2012 presumed disappearance and death of Sierra LaMar got fully underway Monday with opening statements, with attorneys set to ...

Meta said it was postponing the rollout of new terms for its business accounts after an outcry from media companies and ...

The cookbook author and TV host calls this dish, made with slow-cooked garlic and Parmesan, plus parsley, lemon zest and red pepper flakes, ‘Outrageous Garlic Bread.’ ...

The titan arum — otherwise known as the “corpse flower” — is native to Indonesia, Sumatra and Borneo and is one of the largest flowers in the world. When it opens, it emits an odor like that of ...