An initiative that looks likely to appear on the November ballot and that would require a personal finance class in high ...

Despite school officials’ opposition, state Sen. John Laird supports the creation of a cannabis dispensary at the former Emily’s Bakery in Santa Cruz. In a Community Voices opinion piece, he outlines ...

The Dolphin Restaurant at the end of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf will be demolished in order to fix pilings underneath it damaged in a December storm surge. The city hasn't yet determined whether ...

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Scotts Valley Unified School District is considering a bond measure after its board unanimously backed a plan detailing $76 million in facility upgrades. Officials hope better athletic facilities can ...

Wallace Baine strolls through Santa Cruz County's arts and culture scene, complete with his picks for things to see and do this weekend and beyond.

The University of California’s campus safety plan was designed to calm protests by limiting law enforcement. Yet as tensions ...

The University of California’s campus safety plan was designed to calm protests by limiting law enforcement. Yet as tensions grew to violence against a UCLA student encampment erected in protest over ...

After a schoolmate was expelled for overdosing in class, student filmmaker Kyle Santoro began exploring the roots of the opioid crisis among teens and what was causing his fellow classmates to ...

Police arrested pro-Palestinian demonstrators on college campuses across the U.S. on Wednesday. It was a jarring contrast to ...

On Wednesday, the Live Oak farmers market signed a new lease agreement with Swenson that will allow it to stay at the East ...

Tae Yun Kang, a first-year literature and linguistics student at UC Santa Cruz, remembers fellow student Zainab Mansoor, 21, ...