From haunted hotels and vampire balls to drag raves and downtown costume madness, Santa Cruz County is ready to get its freak ...

California needs more housing and infrastructure, but Proposition 45 goes too far, write environmental and conservation leaders Sarah Newkirk, Chris Wilmers and Noelle Chambers. The measure would ...

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived at the Santa Cruz Main Jail on Saturday morning seeking to take ...

One of my favorite parts of working at Lookout Santa Cruz is getting out into the community and connecting with people face-to-face. We spend a lot of time reporting on the decisions that affect our ...

Anticipate heavy traffic and local road closures this Sunday for the inaugural Santa Cruz Marathon. From Wilder Ranch State Park to Capitola Village, here are the locations and times to look out for ...

Friday news for Bonny Doon and Davenport.

Friday news for the San Lorenzo Valley.

The Corralitos Farm & Garden Market is a small, friendly, open-air market made up of local farmers and gardeners who grow within about a 5-mile radius of Corralitos. Seasonally it has strawberries, ...

Aptos Farmers Market at Cabrillo College features 90 vendors, of which most are certified organic or use sustainable farming methods, offer pastured, grass-fed meats and poultry, sustainable fish, ...

Speyer, Watsonville native Martín Vargas-Vega goes from picking strawberries with his farmworker parents to working as a software engineer. The documentary looks at the money and isolation problems he ...

Two of the four Watsonville City Council districts on this November's ballot are competitive races, with District 5 incumbent Casey Clark facing challenger Ángel Zúñiga and in District 7, former ...