From laser-lit dance parties to intimate musical performances, there are plenty of New Year's Eve celebrations going on ...

The Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf likely faces weeks of closure after storm damage destroyed a 150-foot section. Officials are ...

A committee of arts professionals and community activists has announced plans to establish a new 10-day annual festival ...

The cause of a Christmas morning explosion and fire in Capitola Village remains under investigation, but police do not ...

Mark Sponsler has gained cult status among big-wave surfers thanks to his ability to time a wave down to the minute and ...

A section of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed Monday, plunging three construction workers into 25-foot swells. At least nine ...

From her home near Sacramento, Ruby Shields was frantically trying to recover her mother's memorial bench, part of the end of ...

We've assembled some of our most-read stories and opinion pieces of 2024. Consider this your year-end highlight reel of the moments that defined our community.

Famed costume designer Arianne Phillips, who grew up in Santa Cruz, comes to the Santa Cruz Cinema for a Q&A session before the screening of the new Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown," on which she ...

After years of balancing family in Southern California and public service in Santa Cruz, Zach Friend steps into an undefined future.

Lookout photojournalist Kevin Painchaud captured the aftermath of Monday's huge swells, which caused a portion of the Santa ...

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