The devastation spanned beyond homes and businesses in communities such as Boulder Creek and Bonny Doon in Santa Cruz County. As much as 40% of redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains may have burned ...

Nearly 1,000 acres of redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains will be permanently protected from development and future logging thanks to an unusual partnership between a Palo Alto land trust ...

Redwoods form a dramatic backdrop as a person heads down the stairs at the Physical Sciences Building atop Science Hill at UC Santa Cruz. The UCSC Division of Physical & Biological Sciences ...

In 1887, the land became a playground for the rich. James L. Flood, who built San Francisco's Flood Building at Market and Powell streets, was among those who owned the Los Gatos estate, which boasted ...

Come Sunday, children will be scouring their yards with baskets in hand in the hopes of uncovering plastic eggs containing ...

With rugged beauty and consistent waves, Santa Cruz is a surfer’s paradise. Here’s where and when to get your board in the ocean, and how to respect the marine wildlife.

A notorious California killer has been named as a suspect in the 1976 murder of a woman in Aptos, the small seaside town bordering Santa Cruz.

Cheryl Doering was in one of the first classes to graduate from UC Santa Cruz in 1970. Over 5 decades later, Doering honors ...