Santa Cruz County Local News: History

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.

In 2018, California voted to ditch the twice-annual time shift. But the state still has it. Here’s why.

California has banned affirmative action for three decades, but SCOTUS ruling also affects private universities

How a series of mass shootings has made California the toughest gun control state in the nation.

Staffed almost entirely by long-term employees, El Chino has been owned by Maria Gallardo since 2017. Her parents were the founders.

Desperate to win elections, state’s GOP embraces voting practices decried by former president as fraudulent.

Imagine driving into Felton across the covered bridge. Before 1938, that was the county road.

Santa Cruz County historian Sandy Lydon, who is giving his last lecture Oct. 14 before his pending retirement, sees himself as riding a donkey facing backwards.

Derek R. Whaley’s ‘Sidetracked” is the third in the Santa Cruz Trains series of books about local trains, tracks, tunnels, stations and stops.

The longest-serving California senator had a legendary political career spanning seven decades.