Forecasters say there are only few isolated showers remaining Friday as a much drier air mass begins to settle in. Friday's conditions will improve through the day with decreasing shower activity, ...

It's a new era at the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, if you come across one of its deputies you should smile because you ...

A fugitive child sex offender who worked as an LGBTQ+ journalist in under a pseudonym has been identified and arrested by ...

After elevated levels of “forever chemicals” or PFAS were found in the water at Rountree jail, a new water filtration system is expected.

Adrian “AJ” Gonzalez said he’s not the same person as he was at age 15 when he sexually assaulted and murdered 8-year-old ...

Adrian Gonzalez, convicted in the 2015 rape and murder of 8-year-old neighbor Madyson Middleton, was grilled on the stand ...

Elizabeth Gutfahr, former Santa Cruz County treasurer, pleaded guilty in November to embezzling $38.7 million from 2014 to 2024 from the Arizona county.

A butterfly sits on a leaf at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove on Nov. 10, 2021. Photo by Nic Coury, AP Photo For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent ...

"Jan. 28 was Awards Night at the History Forum, as over 100 people gathered at the Methodist Church, a church noted for ...

Adrian Gonzalez testifies in court, describing the details of Maddy Middleton's death, as he seeks release from prison.

A sexually violent predator who was wanted in Virginia for failing to register as a sex offender was arrested in Capitola ...

Santa Cruz County Sheriffs deputies arrested a man after he allegedly entered the campuses of two Watsonville schools and ...