Despite its wide geographic area, Santa Cruz County only has four incorporated cities: Scotts Valley, Capitola, Watsonville ...

Community members from around Santa Cruz County flocked to the Watsonville Buddhist Temple on a gusty Saturday afternoon for ...

On Saturday, May 10, community members across Santa Cruz County are invited to take part in the second annual Pitch in all Santa Cruz Cleanup Day. Video above from another clean-up day held in ...

Pleasure Point, Live Oak and Santa Cruz from the air. (Kara Meyberg Guzman — Santa Cruz Local, flight courtesy of LightHawk) California authorities require cities and counties to plan for more housing ...

SANTA CRUZ — An Irish-born Live Oak resident and valid green card holder remains in legal limbo more than a week after she was detained by federal immigration authorities after a trip abroad.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) — A Santa Cruz County mother who is charged with murdering her 1-year-old baby never called 911 after she found her daughter’s lifeless body in 2024, according to ...

The Santa Cruz River used to be the source of life across southern Arizona. For thousands of years, it fed farms, supported wildlife, and gave water to Native communities. Beginning in the San ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Zoo announced the names of the four new Galapagos Tortoise hatchlings. The names Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia pay tribute to the ladies of "The Golden ...

CHP arrested James David Collier, 66, of Boulder Creek in connection with two bodies found in pickup truck in Santa Cruz mountains. Colter White and Sean Pefeffer were shot to death on March 24 ...

Throughout May and June, Santa Cruz Pride will have events to commemorate turning 50. Santa Cruz Pride is the first smaller city in the nation to reach 50 years and the third oldest Pride event in ...

A man died after an alleged hit-and-run collision on southbound Highway 1 in Santa Cruz County on Sunday night, according to the California Highway Patrol. The CHP said that at 11:17 p.m., patrol ...

LOS GATOS, Calif. - 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 ...