Scotts Valley High senior Ava Decleve posted a top-three finish in her 800 meters prelim race on Friday to qualify for the final at the 2026 CIF State Championships at Buchanan High.

TODAY’S WORD — VENTRAL (VEN-trul: Of or relating to the abdomen.) Average mark 33 words Time limit 50 minutes Can you find 46 or more words in VENTRAL? The list will be published Monday. YESTERDAY’S ...

The Capitola City Council held its first public hearing on its transition to district-based City Council elections Thursday night. The City Council did not provide direction on how many districts ...

The top U.S. commander in Latin America met with Cuban military leaders on Friday in a “brief exchange on operational security matters” near the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, the latest official ...

Here at (Watsonville Community Hospital), the funding will be used for operational expenses, including debt management, current salaries, and necessary supplies,” said hospital CEO Stephen Gray, ...

According to a research project out of UC Santa Cruz, large-scale fires like the CZU Complex have burned through Santa Cruz redwood forests before. As factors including climate change increase fire ...

A full closure of the Murray Street Bridge will begin as early as June 10, the city of Santa Cruz announced Friday. During the closure, which is expected to continue through September, both the ...

The cigarette smoking rate among U.S. adults dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 11 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released this week.

It’s like taking a two-lane freeway and expanding it to six lanes. The upgrade lets us carry more electricity at once, reduces congestion and improves reliability as the community grows,” explained PG ...

Shannon O’Connor received a 35-year, 10-month prison term for masterminding dangerous pandemic-era parties that facilitated binge drinking and intoxicated sexual assault among teens.

A former Southern California mayor pleaded guilty Friday to acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government. Eileen Wang, who stepped down as the mayor of Arcadia earlier this month, was charged ...

Three climbers on Alaska’s Mount McKinley who fell near a treacherous pass on North America’s tallest peak have died, a Latvian mountaineering group announced Friday. The three were members of a ...