Beloved community member, five-time Santa Cruz Mayor and longtime UC Santa Cruz lecturer Mike Rotkin, 79, died Wednesday at ...

Downtown Santa Cruz could soon see a surge in new business activity, thanks to a new city plan aimed at cutting red tape and attracting entrepreneurs to long vacant storefronts. “I’ve noticed a lot of ...

As anyone who lived through the summer of 2020 can tell you, it was an unforgettable time. While many were hunkering at home due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, there was one thing that drew large ...

Camping in city-owned washes in Tucson is now banned, under an ordinance passed by the City Council. Violating the ordinance ...

The Santa Cruz City Council this week approved a variety of proposed economic incentives to reduce vacant storefronts and ...

Mike Rotkin arrived in Santa Cruz in 1969, not long after the University of California, and soon not only became a pillar of ...

Goodbye Santa Monica While I grew up in Santa Monica – going to Roosevelt, Lincoln and Samohi I left to go to UC Santa Cruz and then to do graduate work at the University of Michigan. I was drawn to n ...

The Tucson City Council on Tuesday voted 5-1 to make camping in washes and parks illegal.Kevin Dahl was the lone no ...

Santa Cruz city council moves to ban the sale of tobacco products with plastic filters and state budget cuts could end a ...

The Santa Cruz City Council is moving to prohibit the sale of filtered cigarettes in the city. A proposed ordinance, which passed its first reading on Tuesday, aims to reduce a ...

Following similar bans by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors and the city of Capitola, the Santa Cruz City Council ...