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A Ruby Carranza, 13, had never done a major art project before but she's proud that her first will hang in Santa Cruz for as long as she can imagine.

The ongoing fight over water expansion at UC Santa Cruz is simmering with new legal threats aimed at the Santa Cruz Local Agency Formation Commission.

Inner Light Ministries of Soquel and actor, singer, producer and author Charles Holt will team up for the church's 15th anniversary celebration at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

A A teenager was shot near the railroad tracks in Santa Cruz on Friday night in a gang-related incident, police said.

The City of Santa Cruz Commission for the Prevention of Violence Against Women presents their Summer Self-defense Classes for Women and Girls.

Bright and sunny with 3 well-appointed bedrooms and 2 baths. The generous family room opens out onto patio with spa, water feature, and decking for outdoor entertaining.

Louie Sanchez is charged with felony mayhem and assault charges in the beating of Bryan Stow, a paramedic from Santa Cruz, after the Dodgers 2011 opening day game.

Rather than marching over to San Lorenzo Park after the annual Santa Cruz Pride Parade, celebrants will stay downtown this year for the post-parade festival.

In his act British comedian Eddie Izzard makes a point that while castles in England may be over a thousand years old in Florida they once managed to preserve a building that in his words, "Was almost 50 years old." Well in the city of Santa Cruz, California the Episcopal church here has a much longer history.

A State Senate: District 17 A State Assembly: Districts 29 and 30 A County Supervisor: Districts 1, 2 and 5 A Proposition 28 and 29 A Measure C: West Valley-Mission Community College District Measure A Measure I: Santa Cruz City High School District Measure A Measure J: Santa Cruz Elementary School District Measure A Measure K: Scotts Valley ... (more)

In 75 years maybe they will hold a celebration for the Soquel Avenue Bridge like its gold-painted counterpart saw last weekend.

Background Notes: The men's-only offshoot of the apparel and furnishing store Stripe, this recently opened boutique puts the lie to the notion that you can only find surf, skate, and tie-dye apparel in this beachside college town.

Mid-County Homicides 2012 May 30: A 21-year-old man was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on the Freedom Boulevard overpass on Highway 1. Details are still emerging about this homicide.

The priest always started his favorite "game" by having the young boy remove his underwear and put on loose-fitting shorts so he could fondle him more easily.

For the Marseilles-based band Kabbalah, the answer is all of the above and more.

The number of Santa Cruz medical marijuana dispensaries was halved last weekend when the Santa Cruz Patients Collective suddenly closed its doors.

Grand Jury says government could benefit from legal pot: County could see $7.5 million gain from new taxes and decreased costs SANTA CRUZ - The number of Santa Cruz medical marijuana dispensaries was halved last weekend when the Santa Cruz Patients Collective suddenly closed its doors.

With businesses downsizing and office spaces becoming vacant , professionals are being crammed into offices over the hill and working from home at an increasing rate.A Office space in Santa Cruz County is expensive.

Santa Cruz police worked with a "minor decoy" to stand near the stores and ask patrons to buy alcohol.

A magazine can't really call itself a magazine until its second issue. After all, the title implies regularly replication and until that second issue, every magazine is just an interesting possibility.