Santa Cruz News

For 21 years, Santa Cruz resident and music genius Bill Welch has produced the Santa Cruz Blues Festival at Aptos Village Park, pulling in nearly 6,000 people to soak in two days of soul-filled song.

A steady stream of people showed up at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History on Saturday afternoon to learn how to make ceramic birds from an internationally renown sculptor and painter.

The city of Santa Cruz recently released a Draft Environmental Impact Report that clearly demonstrates that the city faces a serious water shortage and that no alternative to desalination can produce enough water to meet the needs of both the community and fish in local streams.

Yonatan Nieves was 5 when he walked across the border from Mexico into the U.S. with family members.

A man was arrested after attempting to flee from officers during a probation compliance check Friday night in Las Lomas, a Santa Cruz sheriff's sergeant said.

Need wood for a home project? Bay Area Salvage is dismantling an old apple packing warehouse at 5620 Freedom Blvd., a 10,000-square-foot structure made of Douglas fir, redwood and corrugated metal.

Messiah Lutheran Church and UCSC Lutheran Campus Ministry are working in collaboration for The World's Banquet, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 31, on the Messiah Lutheran Church campus.

Tomorrow night Berkeley-born Patrick Landeza will find out if he is the first musician living and working outside the islands to win a coveted Na Hoku Hanohano Award, the Hawaiian music industry's top honor.

A Live Oak man accused of planning to commit grand theft from a local business was found with a cache of weapons, including assault rifles, shotguns, handguns and more than 50,000 rounds of ammunition, Santa Cruz police officials said.

A two-week investigation by Santa Cruz police and the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office into a May 10 crime spree has led to the arrest of three men suspected of burglary, arson, auto theft and conspiracy.

Santa Cruz-based New Leaf Community Markets opened a store in Pleasanton. The opening marks the eighth store in the chain.

When he was leaving for work earlier this month, Luis Castellanos noticed something odd when he looked out at the island in Northern California's Watsonville Slough.

The Boulder Creek Recreation and Parks District is hosting its Music and Art Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Junction Park, 13333 Middleton Ave., Boulder Creek.

The Santa Cruz Composite team took second in the Division II standings at the California High School MTB State Championships on Sunday.

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.