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

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

A paddler, at bottom left, strokes through incoming waves toward Lighthouse Point in Santa Cruz this week.

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

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

A while ago, and it wasn’t yesterday, a baker outlined for me a sea change disrupting her business in ways she couldn’t yet fully grasp. She had built her business from scratch, had a good ...

There are some lessons to be learned from what worked, including PG-rated and animated movies and re-releases, and what didn’t work, like the “Joker” sequel.

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

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.