Santa Cruz News

Dozens of demonstrators who barricaded themselves inside a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts were removed late Friday, bringing the daylong occupation to an end, university officials said.

Target stores continues to look at expanding its presence in Santa Cruz County beyond its single Watsonville location following its decision to abandon plans to build a store in Scotts Valley.

Watsonville, Calif. An arrest warrant has been issued for a suspect in the October 29th attack of a 19 year old in Watsonville.

Students barricaded themselves inside buildings on University of California campuses to protest a 32 percent increase in student fees and budget cuts that have led to slashed programs and lost jobs.

Kathryn Growen was happy the police came to her Walti Street home Monday afternoon.

Police arrested a man suspected of robbing a pizza delivery person with a knife on Sunday.

If Sunday sermons from the Rev. Mark Stetz at Holy Cross Catholic Church sound more regular guy than pious, that's because the priest's first calling was as a journalist who specialized in the world of rock stars and is known to catch a punk band at the Catalyst.

Caught between state funding cuts and rowdy student protests, a key committee of the University of California's Board of Regents on Wednesday reluctantly approved a two-step student fee increase that would raise undergraduate education costs more than $2,500, or 32%, by next fall.

Bookshop Santa Cruz is selling these packets of nuts for $3.98, or giving them free to buyers of the new Sarah Palin book.

The Santa Cruz County coroner's office has identified the pedestrian killed while crossing a Santa Cruz street Friday evening as 60-year-old Harish Tailor.

The entrances to U.C. Santa Cruz are back open after hundreds of students and staff members blocked the roadways leading to the campus as part of a series of protests against proposed tuition and fee hikes.

Police have blocked roads leading into the main entrance of the University of California-Santa Cruz due to a large demonstration.

As raucous demonstrators protested, a University of California regents panel today approved a 32-percent fee hike, including a midyear increase that will hit students' pocketbooks in January.

Santa Cruz County is dangerous for walkers, according to a new study of transportation statistics compiled nationwide.

The teenager who saw her fiance being stabbed to death testified Tuesday about the fatal gang-motivated fight on Soquel Avenue on Jan.

A small house fire that took place in Santa Cruz early Tuesday has left two people displaced.

In the wake of a stabbing death with possible gang ties last month -- and a suspect here illegally who police believe has fled to Mexico -- city leaders are fighting criticism of their "sanctuary city" policy and say that even without it, Santa Cruz could do little more to crack down on illegal immigrants than it does now.

A 49-year-old Santa Cruz man who performed maintenance work for the Homeless Services Center has been missing since Nov.

The Oregon State Police seized 10 pounds of marijuana and more than 1,000 tablets of the hallucinogenic drug "2C-B" during a traffic stop near Ashland today.

Joseph White and his father, Larry White, walk their dogs along the Capitola trestle, part of the proposed rail line purchase.