Lookout photojournalist Kevin Painchaud spent a couple days wandering through Santa Cruz County and chatting with locals about their favorite places to enjoy the outdoors on land — by hiking, biking ...

South Highway 1 in Capitola/Soquel is facing closures for roadway excavation. The closure will last until 6:30 a.m. on Aug.

Only one of 122 UC Santa Cruz protesters faces charges in connection with Gaza encampment arrests last year as the statute of ...

Lower-income people will be the hardest hit by the new federal budget signed into law by President Donald Trump. Over the ...

Watsonville’s city council delayed a vote on appointing former Pajaro Valley Unified School District trustee Georgia Acosta ...

Claudia Sternbach updates readers on her life as a widow, 17 months after she lost her husband, Michael, to a fast-moving ...

A Soquel man was killed in an electric bike crash on Manfre Road in Watsonville on Wednesday afternoon, according to the ...

A medida que los oficiales de inmigración continúan intensificando sus esfuerzos para arrestar y detener a inmigrantes ...

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s summer season is happening now with four captivating productions running July through September. A ...

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