Santa Cruz News

Jaime Galdamez Guevara is "not an angel," his attorney assured jurors Thursday during closing arguments of the Salvadoran gang member's trial on double murder charges.

The future of the tri-county region was the focus of a public workshop Thursday with local residents invited to share a vision of how they hope to get around by 2035 -- whether by car, bike, bus, rail or another form of public transit.

About 90 people gathered in the courtyard of the Museum of Art & History Wednesday to brainstorm how to apply lessons learned from Boulder and Fort Collins, Colo., two communities known as great places to live, work and start a business.

The annual Heal the Bay beach report card was released Thursday and it was not especially good news for Santa Cruz County, a place that prides itself on 29 miles of coastline protected within the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

District Attorney Bob Lee said the four officers who shot and killed Jeremy Goulet in February acted "reasonably, prudent and heroic." Lee and Sheriff Phil Wowak released a few new details Thursday in the investigation into the deaths of Santa Cruz police detective Sgt.

District Attorney Bob Lee said the four officers who shot and killed Jeremy Goulet in February acted "reasonably, prudent and heroic." Lee and Sheriff Phil Wowak released a few new details Thursday in the investigation into the deaths of Santa Cruz police detective Sgt.

The Santa Cruz Police Department Community Room serves 3 functions: training facility for the Police Department and other City Departments, Emergency Operations Center , and a general meeting room for all city residents.

It's called "Lonesome Garbage Man" and it's the second album just released by Windy Hill, the local bluegrass band known for its white shirts, ties and cowboy hats, and its repertoire of new and traditional and lively tunes.

Summary Description: The Santa Cruz City/County Library, a Special District, is soliciting proposals for an Integrated Library System to maintain and control internal and external operations in the areas of Materials Acquisition, Cataloging and Processing, Patron Circulation and Accounts, the Public Access Catalog, System Administration and ... (more)

A home computer isn't going to improve a child's performance at school - but it also isn't likely to hurt it.

Guitarist Derek Trucks and his wife Susan Tedeschi, leaders of the Grammy Award-winning Tedeschi Trucks Band, headlines the Sunday portion of the two-day Santa Cruz Blues Festival in Aptos.

The future of Mid-County drew a crowd to Santa Cruz Gardens Elementary School on Tuesday for a public meeting led by Supervisor John Leopold to gather residents' input on what Live Oak and Soquel might look like in 20 years.

Computer scientists, academics, and other technology professionals flocked to Rio last week for the 19th annual WWW2013 conference at the Windsor Barra Conference Center in Barra da Tijuca.

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District will recognize 65 graduating seniors as the 2013 recipients of the Seal of Biliteracy in a ceremony at 5 p.m. Wednesday on the lawn at district headquarters, 294 Green Valley Road.

A sign is posted on the window of the Indian restaurant at 270 Soquel Ave. explaining the shutdown is due to "renovations." But the phone number locals have been calling since 1991 to reach the downtown eatery is, as of Monday, disconnected.

David Robert Mason, 49, the man who threatened an elderly Santa Cruz couple, took their pickup and led police on a chase last week, was arraigned Tuesday on five felonies.

Software engineer, lawyer and professional golfer were a few of the professions that seventh-grade students offered up Tuesday while visiting UC Santa Cruz.

Michael Seadler, a former Santa Cruz and Santa Clara police officer, was arrested Saturday in Watsonville after officers allegedly found him with cocaine inside his Dodge pickup.

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The marbled murrelet, that wondrous little seabird that stopped loggers from wiping out ancient giant coastal redwoods, is no match for the greedy dunces that run our State Parks.