By Katie Thompson, Tracey Weiss and Dan Haifley On June 10, the City Council will consider a ban on the sale of tobacco filters to protect the city’s watersheds, beaches and ocean. We ...

County’s 2025 to 2026 budget hearings, where the Board of Supervisors will weigh funding options for its various agencies and ...

CAL FIRE announced Thursday the allocation of $72 million to support large-scale, regional land management projects aimed at ...

A Bay Area man is walking from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, barefoot, to raise funds for immigrant children who have been ...

The California Department of Public Health is warning consumers not to eat sport-harvested mussels, clams, scallops and oysters caught in Santa Cruz County.

On the x and y graph measuring a topic’s level of impact and tedium, government budgets might occupy the upper-rightmost ...