Santa Cruz County Local News: History

The Santa Cruz City Council voted unanimously to pass a version of the Wharf Master Plan that removed proposals for a controversial pedestrian pathway or large warehouse.

After years of debate and litigation, the city is trying once again to expand the wharf—but one group continues to try and halt plans for proposed changes.

Can anyone make a Mickey Mouse cartoon now? Yes, but it’s not that simple.

The original inhabitants of Monterey Bay were many things. But as much as anything, the area’s indigenous were fishermen and women.

Ruling by Judge Shelleyanne Chang could open the door to electoral chaos, state AG says.

Updated data for 2022 and 2023 shows that California’s homeless population is only getting larger.

In days past, anyone traveling along Upper Highway 9 in Boulder Creek might spot the White Cockade Scottish Pub biding beside the roadway with its front door emblazoned with the flag of Scotland.

Born in San Francisco, Rowland Rebele lived his later years in Aptos, where he supported civic causes throughout Santa Cruz.

Friends of the Ben Lomond Library have kicked off revitalization efforts for the historic Ben Lomond Library building and library operations with a meet and greet and volunteer gatherings.

Derek Whaley, a historian and research librarian who grew up in Felton, shares the history of train routes through the Santa Cruz Mountains and how they changed the destiny of this region.

Glenn Schaller, whose grassroots work touched nearly every aspect of local progressive politics for the past four decades throughout California, died Oct. 30 in his Santa Cruz home.