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A dozen members of the California Congressional Delegation urged the House Appropriations Committee to reject the Trump Administration’s drastic cuts to USACE.

Larry Jacobs and Sandra Belin, co-owners of Jacobs Farm del Cabo, have been named 2025 Farmer of the Year by the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau. The award is presented annually to farmer(s) who have contributed “beyond their normal farming duties to help the community.”...

A shoulder-widening project on Highway 1 in Santa Cruz County is expected to be completed by the end of August.

Santa Cruz Police are warning the public of a string of fraudulent citations issued to parked vehicles near the beaches.

In October, as part of the annual Open Farm Tour, Prevedelli Farms invites the public to celebrate its eight decades of operation.

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors announced that County Executive Officer Carlos J. Palacios will step down in December after more than 30 years in local government leadership

A multitude of elected officials, workers and law enforcement officials from Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey counties gathered at the Government Center in Salinas Wednesday to send a message to the immigrant community and the federal government. “Today we stand together, locally, statewide and...

The Santa Cruz County Commission on the Environment (CoE) is convening a series of public technical workshops to examine the role and risks of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in modernizing the energy grid. The workshops, scheduled for June 25, July 30 and Aug. 27,...

Two women were hurt early Thursday morning in a head-on crash on Highway 129 (Riverside Road) east of Watsonville.

This story has been updated with more photos from the Watsonville event. Thousands of people gathered at the Governmental Center in Santa Cruz and in City Plaza in Watsonville Saturday for No Kings Day. The first-of-its-kind event was held in 2,000 cities nationwide to protest President...