The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission's June 30 deadline for removing encroachments on future trail land is here. While the owners and residents of one Mid-County mobile home park ...

While searching for sea glass at Platforms beach in Aptos, Santa Cruz nurse Lisa Crouch discovered a long-lost class ring belonging to Jeremy Kennedy, a 1997 Soquel High graduate who lost it while ...

West Cliff Drive is finally back open to two-way traffic after over two years of at least single-lane closures along multiple stretches of road. Now, the city is preparing for some more projects on ...

A new report finds Watsonville Police Department is understaffed and recommends civilian employees handle minor issues, freeing officers for more proactive community engagement and patrol duties. The ...

Fines for illegal dumping will go from $100 to $2,500 for first-time offenders. Second-time offenders will see a bump from ...

Santa Cruz County's hotly debated proposed rail service, ZEPRT, could cost billions of dollars and take a couple of decades to complete. Is it up to the task of transforming the county's transit ...

Lookout photographer Kevin Painchaud details the car accident that almost killed him when he was 15 and how his accident shaped how he now sees the world and photographs it. Painchaud was part of the ...

Lookout food & drink correspondent Lily Belli highlights top events happening around Santa Cruz County this weekend and into ...

Santa Cruz County’s health agency is managing a large number of high-cost patients and has weak systems for tracking them, a ...

Bike Santa Cruz County, a cyclist advocacy and education group, released its Rider Survey Report on Thursday, which shows ...

Pajaro Valley Unified School District mailed an apology letter to ethnic studies consultant Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales on ...

A new report reveals that Santa Cruz County’s agriculture industry contributes nearly $1.6 billion annually to the local ...