According to Santa Cruz County Data Share, the county’s age-adjusted opioid overdose death rate was 28.9 deaths per 100,000 residents in 2024, remaining significantly higher than the statewide average ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In the spring of 1951, the muse landed so hard in the caffeinated mind of Jack Kerouac that within three ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is no longer set to speak at a Labor Day rally when he ...

The Santa Cruz Sentinel’s Letters to the Editor for Sept. 2, 2026.

Jim Morris delivered Teen Kitchen Project’s millionth meal last week. Teen Kitchen Project is a nonprofit that teaches ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new bill Monday aiming to accelerate Pajaro River critical flood protection projects by expanding ...

Giacomo Puccini’s “The Girl of the Golden West,” the Italian composer’s most famous American opera, was translated by Thomas ...

The Bears need to win now under first-year coach Tosh Lupoi to compel donors to fund a roster that makes the program relevant ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer has died. She was 70.

The city of Ceuta, a tiny speck of Spanish territory perched on the northern African coast, normally celebrates its Sept. 2 annual official holiday largely ignored by the mainland. But not this year, ...

For nearly 30 years, the story of Tupac Shakur’s killing existed somewhere between an unsolved murder and hip-hop mythology. His death became intertwined with the killing of Christopher Wallace, ...

The Trump administration is wading into a legal fight between OpenAI and the New York Times, backing the ChatGPT-maker’s argument in a closely watched case over how it builds its AI technology by ...