Like many up-and-coming Americana singer-songwriters, Santa Cruz County native Taylor Rae Vencill left her home for the ...

Cliona Ward, a longtime Santa Cruz resident, is set to be released from a detention center in Tacoma, Washington, on ...

Cliona Ward is a legal green card holder from Ireland and has lived in Santa Cruz for more than 30 years. Ward’s green card ...

A Santa Cruz woman was granted freedom on Wednesday after she was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and ...

Imagine a County where every park, beach, creek and neighborhood is free of litter,” writes Sally-Christine Rodgers in a Guest Commentary. “Where clean streets and ...

A 30-year permanent resident of Santa Cruz County will be released from Customs and Border Protection custody on Wednesday.

“These students represent the future of our region; 87 percent are first-generation college-bound, and all are participating ...

One of two swimmers who struggled in the ocean after jumping off a Santa Cruz cliff remains missing, California firefighters ...

A thumbprint from a carton of cigarettes helped San Jose police make an arrest in a cold case from nearly 50 years ago. A San Jose police officer was stabbed in the arm Tuesday morning while ...

The California Highway Patrol arrested a 66-year-old Boulder Creek man after two bodies were found last month in the back of a pick-up truck along rural SR-35 in the Santa Cruz mountains near Los ...

Common Sense' Department: An illegal immigrant in California is being let out of prison after 3.5 years, when he was supposed to serve 10. The CSD is wondering just how often criminals like this ...