Goldenkranz, Realmuto, Estrada, Jimenez lead PVUSD trustee race
Newcomer Realmuto stretches his lead
Watsonville City Council: Angel Zuniga maintains the lead, Ed Acosta widens gap
Both races still close
Scotts Valley City Council, water district, Measure G results
Greg Wimp, Michael Zeller lead race for two city council seats
Winter and Crandell in lead for Felton Fire board
Levine leads in SLVUSD race
Cabrillo College Board of Trustees: Cogswell leads
Finke, Ales-Barnicoat trail
Incumbent Ariel Gray poised to keep Soquel Union Elementary seat
Gray secures nearly twice as many votes in early tallies
The procrastinator’s guide to Election Day in Santa Cruz County
Still haven't looked at your ballot? We've got you covered.
LGBTQ+ issues emerge in three Santa Cruz County school board races
Candidates running in San Lorenzo Valley, Soquel Union, Pajaro Valley Unified
With less stability, less community, homeless displaced from Coral Street struggle to make it
Santa Cruz continues to conduct homeless sweeps, with limited housing options
As big buildings come to Santa Cruz, leaders want suggestions to make them less ugly
Survey open through August
Up to 281 apartments proposed on Seabright Avenue in Santa Cruz
Plus other major housing and development projects
Woman returns home after years of displacement by CZU Lightning Complex Fire
Santa Cruz nonprofit completes first ground-up housing rebuild
PVUSD Superintendent Heather Contreras leaving for another role
Contreras to take a new superintendent job in San Luis Obispo
Watsonville City Council approves new restrictions on Flock cameras
Reduction in cameras, changes to data retention policy, and more
Watsonville leaders to discuss Flock contract
Meeting Tuesday evening, how to submit public comment
Capitola council candidate concerned over indoctrination of children by pro-LGBTQ+ educators, governments
Candidate TJ Welch reaffirms support for the LGBTQ+ community despite scrutiny
Watsonville NICU closure approaches two months with no opening in sight
Watsonville Community Hospital nurses protest nursery closure
Driscoll’s CEO steps down amid growing activist pressure on company for use of pesticides
World’s largest berry company now helmed by Brie Reiter Smith
Watsonville activists use Strawberry Festival stage to protest pesticides
Protester crowned honorary Queen of the Patch
How Big Soda nearly killed Measure Z in Santa Cruz
Part 2: How voters fought back against pressure by the beverage industry
Santa Cruz transportation leaders weigh loans for highway, rail trail projects
Santa Cruz transportation leaders weigh loans for highway, rail trail projects
Costs are mounting to repair main access bridge in Bonnie Brier, with residents still cutoff
Small mountain community working to create an assessment district
Murray Street Bridge to close for summer
Starting on or around June 10, the bridge will be closed in both directions
Boulder Creek community has one way in and one way out
Bonnie Brier lost its main access bridge in 2025. One year later, residents are still cut off.
Moss Landing battery facility reignites 1.5 years after fire
Shelter-in-place warnings for nearby residents
Learn to identify invasive beetles that threaten trees in Santa Cruz County
Two meetings this week on shothole borer beetles
Return of the River Stewards: shelter residents tend to San Lorenzo riverbank ecosystem
Coastal Watershed Council and People First partner
Pajaro Valley prepares for natural disasters after mass flooding in 2023
Public input wanted on hazard plan
‘Nowhere to go’: Palomar tenants decry rent hikes, cockroaches
Tenants Association says landlord failed to give required notice
Epstein victim grew up in Santa Cruz County, latest DOJ release reveals
Jeffrey Epstein traveled to Santa Cruz, deposition says
This Santa Cruz nonprofit gave him a home. Then they took it away.
Left behind by the defunct Mental Health Client Action Network
Dozens of California agencies shared license plate data with feds, Santa Cruz records show
LAPD and others appear to have violated state law