If California’s population is well off its peak, and developers keep on building housing, why does the cost of living in the ...

SANTA CRUZ — Generally, June is around when people can expect rainbow-colored flags to be raised in commemoration of Pride ...

SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County is no stranger to trash cleanups. A few hours spent meandering the county’s iconic coastline ...

SANTA CRUZ — Hundreds of UC Santa Cruz students gathered at Quarry Plaza on the university’s campus around noon Tuesday and ...

Aptos High’s boys tennis team, co-champion of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League with Scotts Valley, lost 5-2 to Evergreen ...

This week featured lots of wind, which always makes fishing difficult, if not impossible. Most mornings, the gusty air was ...

Cabrillo College’s baseball team scored 10 runs over the final three innings and rallied past host Fresno City 14-11 to open its best-of-three NorCal Regional playoffs opener Thursday. The start of ...

APTOS — At Santa Cruz High, boys volleyball is a way of life. Go to the beach and play volleyball after school. Then head to the gym for indoor practice in the evening. Bonding and community. On the ...

Thanks to the April 19 letter writer for addressing the largely ignored issue of transgender women in women’s prisons. Male aggression in transgender women should not surprise us. It was first ...

As a regular walker around the Harbor and West Cliff I can say it’s not just e-bikes that are out of control, but also regular bicyclists. Recently, I saw a man almost get hit as he came screaming ...

The rail-trail Commentary by Justin Cummings and Andy Schiffrin (April 23) has a laundry list of arguments for building the “Ultimate” trail. Such a trail means leaving the unused tracks in place ...

We must stop making the horrific Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the subsequent genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza a matter of religion or of people. This is not Jews against Muslims and neither is it ...