Find in microcosm so much that is great about California, including towering redwoods, surf culture and renowned wineries.

The Santa Cruz City Council made first steps toward updating its city charter Tuesday. The city’s charter is a voter-approved ...

Be sure to catch Woodhouse Comedy Night on the Santa Cruz Patch calendar ...

Professor Jennifer Parker organized the April 22 Arts & Ecology Festival as a space for gathering, exchange, and collective ...

Santa Cruz residents are eager to enjoy the outdoors and fresh air after recent storms, despite hazardous beach conditions caused by crashing waves." wanting to get some exercise and be in nature, I ...

The annual April in Santa Cruz Festival of Creative Music (AiSC) returns this year with UC Santa Cruz faculty and graduate students, renowned guest artists, and several visiting artists.

A gull spreads its wings Thursday morning as it lifts off the roof of a car in the Costco parking lot.

Eight people, including three children, were displaced early Tuesday morning after a garage fire broke out at a home in Santa ...

The Santa Cruz Wharf is set to reopen later this month. It's been undergoing repairs for more than a year after a portion ...

When the Santa Cruz Wharf fully opens this month - more than a year after a winter storm tore away 180 feet of its sea facing ...

Santa Cruz County Behavioral Health, in partnership with Aspiranet, has opened a new Crisis Stabilization Unit aimed at ...