Despite Donald Trump’s plans, federal funding is a small part of California’s education budget – and the state oversees ...

Pajaro Valley Unified School District officials are proposing to relocate a La Selva Beach continuation school to Pajaro ...

The Santa Cruz City Council voted this week to reaffirm its sanctuary city policy, a largely symbolic show of support to the ...

Timing the blazes between soggy storms, California State Parks workers and volunteers stage prescribed burns of piles of ...

Residents of the Felton Grove neighborhood along the San Lorenzo River and of areas of Watsonville along Corralitos and ...

With the long weekend nearly here, check out Wallace Baine’s Best 9 recommendations for things to do around Santa Cruz County ...

Stephanie Penn is a freelance journalist, photographer and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied geology and studio art at Cornell College and loves combining her background in ...

A vehicle went off the road into a ditch and hit a tree at 1099 Pleasant Valley Rd in Aptos. Initially reported as a major injury collision, it was later downgraded to a minor injury collision. The ...

A National Weather Service meteorologist said the main rain band of the latest atmospheric river had passed through Santa Cruz County as of midday Thursday, with only mild to moderate rain expected ...

A man walking along Highway 1 north of Santa Cruz early Thursday was struck and killed by a pickup truck, the California Highway Patrol said in a news release.

Santa Cruz County immigration lawyers and public defenders have their hands full with cases and frequent changes to ...

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