From laser-lit dance parties to intimate musical performances, there are plenty of New Year's Eve celebrations going on ...

A committee of arts professionals and community activists has announced plans to establish a new 10-day annual festival ...

The cause of a Christmas morning explosion and fire in Capitola Village remains under investigation, but police do not ...

Business owners and employees who work on the Santa Cruz Wharf don't yet know when they'll be able to get back on the job after the partial collapse of the pier on Monday. While city officials are ...

We've assembled some of our most-read stories and opinion pieces of 2024. Consider this your year-end highlight reel of the moments that defined our community.

Mark Sponsler has gained cult status among big-wave surfers thanks to his ability to time a wave down to the minute and ...

Famed costume designer Arianne Phillips, who grew up in Santa Cruz, comes to the Santa Cruz Cinema for a Q&A session before the screening of the new Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown," on which she ...

From her home near Sacramento, Ruby Shields was frantically trying to recover her mother's memorial bench, part of the end of ...

A section of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed Monday, plunging three construction workers into 25-foot swells. At least nine ...

A year after purchasing Watsonville’s Fox Theater, business owner Franco Vaca says there’s no telling when the theater will reopen to the public.

Local businessperson and mom Brooke Secor responds to a recent Lookout op-ed by Tom Decker, a Republican who has strong ideas about why Donald Trump won in November. She believes it's not about the ...

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