California marked a milestone this month with the return of an uninterrupted Highway 1 through the perilous, yet spectacular ...

The 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz, a key naval clash during the Guadalcanal campaign, was a turning point in the Pacific Theater ...

Between Santa Cruz Point (Lighthouse Point) and Black Point, is a coved inlet once dubbed Santa Cruz Harbor in the 1850s,” ...

Ten of us plus a crew of three set out around 7:30 on a recent morning on our Orca Quest from Channel Islands Harbor aboard the Tern, a 30-foot zodiac ...

Explore stunning California destinations that shine in every season, from redwood forests and deserts to beaches and mountain ...

Plenty of islands claim to be Galapagos-like, but are they really? These gorgeous, must-visit destinations have much in ...

Santa Cruz County Sheriff Chris Clark has floated the idea of a new “mental health jail,” pointing to the high number of incarcerated people on psychiatric medication. But jail is not treatment, and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, ...

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors gave a thumbs up to revised draft rules for battery energy storage facilities at its January 13 ...

While 29 Cuban boxers have won 42 Olympic gold medals, only four of them have won professional world titles. Dustin Wiens ...

Max Talley, a writer living in Santa Barbara, set two pivotal chapters of his recent book “Peace, Love & Haight” in Santa Cruz. Here, he explains why the Beach Boardwalk and the drive north up Highway ...

You had a summer romance 15 years ago, and while you liked the person you were in a relationship with, you had to break it ...