A clean needle distribution program in Santa Cruz County previously halted by the courts amid resident and police opposition ...

Organized by Lookout Santa Cruz photographer Kevin Painchaud and Sentinel photographer Shmuel Thaler, the exhibit features ...

Valle del Pájaro County Park, located at 188 Whiting Road in an unincorporated area outside of Watsonville, is the first new park in unincorporated South County in decades.

A grand jury report highlights the lack of training and enforcement in Santa Cruz County to combat human trafficking, urging ...

Santa Cruz County education and law enforcement officials have launched a new countywide initiative aimed at aggressively ...

After receiving final approval from the Board of Supervisors earlier this month, the first offense fine for illegal dumping ...

Debut novels, anticipated novels, memoirs, essays and other timely non-fiction titles by California writers and visiting ...

Using data from 2023, the newly released Economic Contributions of County Agriculture report harvests not just crop ...

A Santa Cruz County Civil Grand Jury report criticizes the county’s building permit process as excessively costly, slow and ...

Santa Cruz County supervisors will begin a search for a new top administrator to succeed Carlos Palacios, who is stepping ...

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors announced that County Executive Officer Carlos J. Palacios will step down in ...