Santa Cruz News

Public health officers in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties are reiterating their flu-fighting precautions to residents after each county announced its first death related to the H1N1 virus.

The U.S. Marshals Service has arrested more than 35,000 fugitives, including in the Bay Area, in a monthlong operation that involved cooperation by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.

Two men were arrested Monday after a stun gun was used during a fight that broke out in a line at a Santa Cruz restaurant, police said.

Like all graduate students, Kun "Kelly" Qian was full of hopes and aspirations on the morning of her commencement.

Sheriff's deputies and state drug agents ripped out marijuana plants worth more than $1 million from an illegal garden in a remote area of the Soquel Demonstration Forest on Monday, but not before the growers had harvested about half of the pot and fled.

Santa Cruz golfer Cory McElyea lost in a playoff Monday, failing to advance to the upcoming U.S. Junior Amateur, a USGA championship.

Playing trumpet in Santa Cruz High's award-winning band is just one of Emma Kleck’s myriad endeavors Emma Kleck began taking violin and ballet at the age of 4; now 16 and a Santa Cruz High School junior, she's active in numerous school and music-related activities while maintaining a 3.9 GPA.

My post traumatic stress is horrible. I've had a horrible life. The saving factor was that I found pot. It saved me, saved my life. My nightmares were gone...

For the past few weeks, she has traversed Northern California, from Watsonville to Merced and to San Francisco, but with a purpose -- to plant the seed of Santa Cruz in the heart of our first lady Michelle Obama.

It wasn't until after he dragged his body onto the beach near Fisherman's Wharf --" nearly five and a half hours after leaving Santa Cruz on his paddleboard --" that Craig Waltz learned about the shark.

As city leaders furlough staff and slash services to help bridge a $9 million budget gap, a look at city finances shows the city paid a total $88,930 to 40 retiring workers in 2008 for vacation and sick days they never took.

Monday, trustees for Santa Cruz City Schools weighed a second major step in overhauling the district's cafeteria program, but chose to delay a critical vote until a new food services director is hired next month and the financial impact is reviewed.

The California sea otter, whose numbers have only recently begun to rebound from the devastating fur trade, appears to be struggling again.

Santa Cruz author Jill Wolfson doesn't shy away from challenging subject matter for her children's and young adult fiction.

A woman walking home alone after a night out with friends was attacked and sexually assaulted in the Seabright neighborhood late Sunday, police reported.

Opponents of a plan for the city to provide UC Santa Cruz with water for 4,000 more students are predicting a legal fight if the plan is approved by regulators.

At the end of 11th grade Career Day, Bill Levonian had no idea what he wanted to do with his life.

A man who works three jobs to support his family - including one as a limousine driver - has won a $39 million jackpot in California's SuperLotto Plus.

Requests to spare the state from mass budget cuts have been so numerous they jammed Assemblyman Bill Monning's fax machine.

Experts in preventing violence against women and police will meet with Seabright residents Thursday to quell fears and answer questions following the attack and rape of a woman walking home in the neighborhood Sunday night.