More than a hundred community members gathered around the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf stage on a sunny and brisk Saturday ...

The kelp forests of central California, and particularly those within Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, have undergone ...

Three individuals were hospitalized Tuesday after ingesting amanita phalloides, or death cap mushrooms, purchased from a ...

California lawmakers are proposing steps to protect K-12 students and families from mass deportations — although the real ...

The Monterey County Planning Commission recently unanimously approved a permit allowing the Red Barn to host larger events.

Following a tense vote on the House floor to re-elect U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson as Speaker, the Louisiana Republican swore in ...

The utility is convinced it will be able to keep annual increases in monthly bills close to the overall increase in inflation ...

I want to begin this column by acknowledging how this year’s holidays coincided with a storm surge that battered our shoreline, including the Santa Cruz Wharf and the Santa ...

This 1920 photograph shows a large crowd gathered in Capitola Village. It is likely the crowd was assembling to view one of the swimming or rowboat races on the lagoon sponsored by Capitola’s new ...

The council as it stands is made up of of relative newcomers, including newly elected former Planning Commissioner Gerry ...

Scotts Valley High’s girls basketball team, which returns every player from last year’s team, believes it will compete with ...

With debris from the Dec. 23 collapse of the Santa Cruz Wharf finding its way down the coast at least as far as Manresa State ...