Former supervisor Bruce McPherson urges the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to move forward with a new battery energy ...

Former Santa Cruz mayor Chris Krohn argues that New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent progressive victory offers a blueprint for a new generation of political change in Santa Cruz. He says ...

Encompass Community Services is scrambling to reopen Head Start, a federally funded low-income child care program, after the ...

The City of Santa Cruz is beginning another round of repairs at the Santa Cruz Wharf, nearly a year after powerful swells ...

Two people, including a California Highway Patrol officer, were treated in hospital for minor injuries after a tree fell onto ...

Community Bridges CEO Ray Cancino reaffirms the agency’s commitment to supporting both its employees and the communities it serves and laments that workers who published a Lookout op-ed earlier this ...

Federal food assistance has resumed for thousands of Santa Cruz County residents after a shutdown-related disruption in early ...

After thousands of votes across hundreds of categories, the winners and runner-ups are officially in for the inaugural Lookout List. See which of your favorites came out on top. The Ugly Mug & Jackson ...

Utah tourist Danielle Staley, 35, vanished after a bonfire at Rio Del Mar State Beach earlier this month. A week after Staley ...

Teachers, mental health clinicians and parents packed Watsonville’s City Council chambers Wednesday night to plead with ...

After thousands of votes across hundreds of categories, the winners and runner-ups are officially named for the inaugural Lookout List. See which of your favorites came out on top. County officials ...

In a letter to the editor, a Santa Cruz resident writes that California Gov. Gavin Newsom, held up as an example of how to deal with bullies, is a bully himself.