What’s up with all the road work along Soquel Drive?
APTOS — It’s no secret that the rush hour commute along Soquel Drive often moves at a snail’s pace — some call it “Highway 2” with a not-so-subtle hint of exasperated sarcasm. But for months, as...
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Santa Cruz County 5th District: Candidates vow to shake up the status quo at...
FELTON — With the 2024 election season nearing its final stretch and the pool of candidates running to fill an opening for the 5th District seat on the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors narrowed...
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MVC celebrates missed extra-point kick, edges Alvarez in high-scoring...
WATSONVILLE — Alvarez High’s football team went for the tie and gave Monte Vista Christian School the win in the teams’ high-scoring thriller Friday night. Alvarez’s Aiden Jones scored on a 2-yard pass...
View ArticleGuest Commentary | Santa Cruz County still facing many challenges in efforts...
By Carlos Palacios Santa Cruz County has seen more than its share of climate change-driven storms that have wreaked havoc on its infrastructure. The most persistent and damaging impact has been on...
View ArticleJazz guitar icon Marc Ribot brings his search for sonic adventure to Santa Cruz
Rife with invention and iconoclastic attitude, New York City’s 1970s Downtown scene was famous for tricksters, renegades and eccentrics who laced their music with pastiche and irony. At first glance...
View ArticleMayor’s Message | AB 1482 protections must be extended to prevent...
Reader’s note: Mayor Fred Keeley is the first four-year mayor of the city of Santa Cruz. In the spirit of collaboration, Mayor Keeley will be sharing the monthly Mayor’s Message column with the other...
View ArticleGary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard | The risks that we face in life
There seems to be no end of things to worry or be concerned about in our daily lives, and I’m leaving politics out of this one. In news broadcasting, there is the saying, “If it bleeds it leads.”...
View ArticleFocal Point | The Santa Cruz-Capitola Airport in 1948
CAPITOLA — A landing strip was first established at Capitola in the mid-1920s. It was located at what is now the Cliffwood Heights neighborhood, east of today’s New Brighton Middle School. After...
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Local trio eliminated from Nissan Super Girl Surf Pro in Oceanside | Local...
Santa Cruzan’s Keanna Miller, Riviera Hunter, and Esme Brigham were eliminated in the Round of 64 at the World Surf League’s Nissan Super Girl Surf Pro at Oceanside Pier on Saturday. The local trio...
View ArticleFinding Sanctuary | Presenting the 2024 recipients of the Sea Star Awards
The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) Foundation is proud to announce the 2024 recipients of the prestigious Sea Star Awards. These awards celebrate individuals and organizations whose...
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Live Oak | Grey Bears celebrates 51st Harvest Festival
LIVE OAK — Live music and the smell of barbecue permeated the air on the Chanticleer Avenue campus of Grey Bears in Live Oak on an overcast Saturday afternoon as hundreds of community members enjoyed a...
View ArticlePhoto | Painter applies a light coat of paint to lamppost in downtown Santa Cruz
Josh Aleda of HP Painting rises above the umbrellas in the parklet at Walnut Avenue Cafe as he puts a fresh coat on lampposts in downtown Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz first installed electric street lighting...
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SC’s Connor Spencer wins division at USA Triathlon Sprint Distance National...
SANTA CRUZ — Former defensive lineman Connor Spencer accomplished big things when he played high school and college football. The Santa Cruz resident, 28, is doing more of the same as a triathlete. He...
View ArticleSanta Cruz Yacht Club’s Pegasus wins 2024 Moore 24 Nationals regatta | Local...
Pegasus took first place at the three-day 2024 Moore 24 Nationals, which concluded Sunday afternoon on the Monterey Bay. The victorious crew included Santa Cruz Yacht Club’s Philippe Kahn, Mark...
View ArticleQuick Bites | Equinox Wine Cellars founder and winemaker Barry Jackson dies
SANTA CRUZ Equinox winemaker and founder dies Barry Jackson, founder and winemaker for Equinox Wine Cellars, died unexpectedly on Sept. 12 at the age of 72. Jackson’s long career in the wine field...
View ArticlePajaro Valley school board candidates discuss ethnic studies, board...
WATSONVILLE — Four of the six candidates in this year’s Pajaro Valley Unified School District board election answered questions about issues facing the district in a candidate forum hosted in the...
View ArticleSanta Cruz County supervisors take aim at vacation rental reform
SANTA CRUZ — As part of an effort to address the local housing crisis, Santa Cruz County leaders agreed to take a hard look at policies related to hosted and unhosted housing rentals. The board, at the...
View ArticleSanta Cruz | Six-story Mission Street development to be discussed at meeting
SANTA CRUZ — The city of Santa Cruz will hold an online community meeting from 6 p.m. to 7:30 Monday regarding a six-story mixed-use building proposed to fill three lots on the 1800 block of Mission...
View ArticlePhoto | The sun sets above UC Santa Cruz
A Metro bus carries passengers along Empire Grade on Monday as a dramatic sunset paints the sky in a fiery palette near the West Entrance to the UC Santa Cruz campus. A week of students moving into...
View ArticlePhoto | A foggy morning on Highway 1 in Davenport
Thick fog obscures much of the landscape at Davenport Tuesday morning as a vehicle motors toward Santa Cruz on Highway 1. The National Weather Service forecast calls for patchy morning and evening fog...
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