Santa Cruz County Local News

Your donation to County Park Friends will help raise $30,000 for scholarships so local youth can participate in Santa Cruz County parks and recreation programs. Click to learn more.

A summary of campaign finance filings for the candidates running for seats on the Szcotts Valley City Council in the November 5 election.

A look at UCSC student led radio station KZSC as it enters its 50th year.

The Live Oak School District is expected to go through another round of layoffs to stabilize finances and address a budget deficit.

Learn more about the 28 community nonprofit programs selected to receive the funding and a summary of the Collective of Results and Evidence-Based (CORE) process used to select recipients.

Sixty years ago, I was a reporter for the Klamath Falls (Oregon) Herald and News and with my family lived in a small house on the Link River, which flows out of Upper Klamath Lake, draining a large portion of the Cascade mountain range.

The public is invited to provide input on how the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission should allocate revenue from 2016's Measure D to local transportation programs. Click to learn how you can weigh in.

Learn more about how the tree removal work between November 4 and 11 will affect your commute over the hill.

THE SALINAS VALLEY is the setting for fecund soil, labor rights movements and John Steinbeck novels.Squeezed into one 90-mile-long wedge between the Gabilan and Santa Lucia mountains, the valley’s residents constitute less than 1% of Californians but have shaped the identity of the whole state.

Low counts of spawning salmon could mean another year without fishing. Experts say the outlook still has time to turn around.

Homeless Californians face many barriers to casting a ballot, even in elections that affect their lives. Some counties and nonprofits are trying to boost turnout.

California motorists buy and consume a billion gallons of gasoline each month and are very sensitive about pump prices, which are markedly higher than those in other states. Naturally, they are a political football.

A strain of bird flu that imperiled California poultry and cattle has jumped to people. In humans, the symptoms are mild and the virus has not been transmitted among people.

The new Office of Inspector General has been released noting concerns about use-of-force, deaths in custody and conditions at the county jail.

Proposition 33 on local rent control and the related Proposition 34 are attracting the most campaign cash by far of the 10 ballot measures. But the amount pales to what was spent on dueling sports betting measures in 2022.

A summary of the City of Santa Cruz response to the Civil Grand Jury report on its efforts to prevent sexual assault and domestic violence and associated data tracking.

A summary of the latest campaign finance filings from candidates running for seats on the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors in the November election.

Residents with complaints about local government are invited to get in touch with the Santa Cruz County Civil Grand Jury.

A look at the new 23 member Santa Cruz County Youth Advisory Task Force.

A summary of the first report from the newly formed Office of Inspector General on proposed reforms to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff.