The San Lorenzo River flows through downtown Santa Cruz as seen in a recent drone photo. Flowing from its headwaters near ...

In a scene reminiscent of an iconic Alfred Hitchcock movie, a flock of gulls fills the sky above Main Beach in Santa Cruz on ...

A Friday morning delivery of a shoring box on Bay Street in Santa Cruz didn’t go as scheduled as its trailer got stuck when ...

The Court of Mysteries features a 30-foot obelisk, a handcrafted brick-and-abalone gate, a temple-like structure with cryptic ...

Election officers worked on Saturday to prepare various voting sites for the 2024 election. Santa Cruz County voters can cast ...

The County District Attorney’s Office has charged a 19-year-old man with felony arson after firefighters extinguished a ...

Lookout photojournalist Kevin Painchaud was on hand Thursday night to capture the colorful array of costumes and Halloween fun in downtown Santa Cruz.

A new wildfire was reported today at 8:17 a.m. in Santa Cruz County. The wildfire has been burning on private land. At this ...

LOS GATOS — An old lumber mill site nestled in a secluded and scenic spot in the Santa Cruz Mountains is up for sale after a years-long effort to renovate and refurbish the history-rich property.

The first annual report of the Office of Inspector General calls on the County Sheriff's Office to require deputies turn body ...

University of California, Santa Cruz is a public institution that was founded in 1965. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 17,812 (fall 2023), and the campus size is 2,000 acres.

New research studied the rate of response to climate change in California grasslands by using combined long-term datasets from sites like this one in Swanton, California, which has been monitored by ...