Scotts Valley News

Just a couple of years after it was on the financial ropes, the Santa Cruz Public Libraries is expected to be debt-free and grow its revenue 13 percent during the next five years through tax bumps and ongoing savings from restructuring.

California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird will be honored by President Barack Obama on Wednesday as a Harvey Milk Champion of Change.

A sobriety checkpoint Saturday at Ocean and Water streets netted five arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol, authorities reported Monday.

In an homage to the original Kings Market, more than 50 people scaled scaffolds and wielded paintbrushes on Saturday to paint a mural at the Kings Village Shopping Center.

After earning $1.8 million and expanding loans 14 percent in 2012, Lighthouse Bank aims to grow loans by 18 percent by going head to head with competitors.

Maxwell Matewere, a representitive of Eye of The Child, a grassroots organization based in Malawi, has come to the United States to work with, from left, Anya Barca-Hall, Kate Clandenen, Nicole LaPorte and Katherine Stewart.

It will be a day filled with Championship matches at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis club as the singles finals of the Women's 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s Divisions will all be played on Friday at the USTA National Senior Women's Hard Court Tennis Championships.

The Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter and the Friends of Watsonville Animal Shelter are hosting a Healthy Dogs Shots Fair from 1-4 p.m. May 18 at Ramsay Park Baseball Field, 1301 Main St.

The San Lorenzo Valley Water District administrative headquarters, shown here, would be consolidated with the operations facilities if a proposed rate increase goes through.

A groupie wearing a hot-pink tank top and a purple mini skirt danced in front of the four 11-year-old members of the band Slime on Sunday afternoon.

Bud Kaeding scored a dramatic feature win Friday night in Ocean Speedway's 360 winged sprint series.

Update: 5:55 p.m. -- Authorities have cleared an overturned vehicle that was blocking one northbound lane of Highway 17 at Jarvis Road near Scotts Valley.

First Congregational Church will host a gun turn-in event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the upper parking area of the church grounds.

Twelve artists in the Live Oak/Pleasure Point area of Santa Cruz will open their studios to the public for the Art and Chocolate in Santa Cruz today and Sunday.

The new attraction in Scotts Valley offers appetizers and entrees along with several beers on tap and a selection of wines you can sip while watching "42" or "Iron Man 3." CineLux Theatres, in the Kings Village Shopping Center, owned by the Ow family, has undergone a "multimillion-dollar" overhaul in the past two years in an attempt to win the ... (more)

GRENOBLE, France, May 10, 2013 - Passively Q-switched microlaser maker Teem Photonics has appointed Market Tech of Scotts Valley, Calif., as its US distributor, Market Tech announced this week.

Almost two dozen email accounts of Cabrillo College staff and faculty were externally hacked starting April 29.

Madison Avery Smith , a 7-pound baby girl, was born at 5:42 p.m. April 22, 2013, to Nichole Raschel Venturelli and Seren Jaro Smith of Scotts Valley.

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Amerigas2LS5-10-13 A "For sale" sign on the former Amerigas branch in Scotts Valley.