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 ...

Nicholas Kerr is leaving the Santa Cruz Warriors to rejoin the Golden State Warriors, with Lainn Wilson stepping in as the ...

Nearly five years after a massive fire burned California’s oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods, blackening groves of famous ...

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

The Olympics are roughly three years away. Challenges over funding and timing for Los Angeles County's public transit plans ...

The Black Lives Matter mural on Center Street in front of Santa Cruz City Hall has a bright new feel this week thanks to volunteers who worked together earlier this month at a community event ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man charged with killing one Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another in what prosecutors have ...

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office has identified the man killed in a crash that occurred in the Santa Cruz Mountains on ...

Santa Cruz police are warning drivers about fake parking tickets near the beach. They posted a side-by-side photo, showing what the fakes look like compared to the real thing. Police are advising ...

Josh Howard, 22, was walking home from work on a narrow shoulder of Highway 9 when he was killed by a driver who drifted out ...

A $4.3 billion passenger rail line would sap money for road repairs and other transportation projects and likely would mean a new sales tax.

A Lookout reporter and photographer traveled with local advocates to Sacramento to document their efforts to convince ...