Protests erupted across the United States on Saturday following President Donald Trump’s military attack on Venezuela late Friday.

Rules would give local control to controversial facilities By Todd Guild Of The Pajaronian The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday moved forward with proposed rules aimed at regulating ...

An excerpt from ‘Santa Cruz is in the Heart Vol. II’ In the spring when the willows and chickens grew fat again and the plum trees blossomed pink and white in the Chinatown yards near the river, the ...

As organic food goes mainstream, Santa Cruz's Cathy Calfo steps down from California Certified Organic Farmers, or CCOF, which led the certification craze.

[dropcap]G [/dropcap]ilmore, staying in Santa Cruz at the invitation of our mutual friend (and Good Times CEO) Dan Pulcrano, was so intrigued by the princes’ and Antoinette Swan’s tale that he went to ...

How did US Canta Cruz get its annual First Rain Run? The story goes that the infamous streaking tradition started with a game of Simon Says.

Unused Potential Local historian Derek Whaley supports the reestablishment of the once-popular and historically important railway between the counties of Santa Cruz and Santa Clara. In his book Santa ...

The Cruz Connection. How a longtime Santa Cruz resident, Helen Kinau Wilder, figures prominentlyCharlie Chan, the great fictional detective, was a man of mystery and intrigue—as well as a racist ...

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputy killed Saturday afternoon when he was ambushed by a gunman has been identified as Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, 38.

The last time Alephonsion Deng saw his mother he was 7 years old. He was out tending to his goats when marauders attacked his Dinka village, Juol, in Southern Sudan. He knew what to do—his mother had ...

Editor’s note: Frances Hatfield lives in Santa Cruz, where she also maintains a private practice in depth psychotherapy. Her poetry has appeared most recently in Parabola Magazine, Memoir (and), Jung ...

On the 30th anniversary of the Oct. 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake, a look back at archival photos of Santa Cruz County after disaster struck.