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The new Santa Cruz Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shelter is moving skyward as it goes through the framing and siding phase on Chanticleer Avenue.

Raised funds and gathered donations for low-income and homeless children in the region.

While Michael Wallace was serving as Managing Editor for The Pajaronian newspaper in the 1970s and 1980s, he learned a thing or two about getting to the bottom of a story.

Across Watsonville, throughout Santa Cruz County and around the U.S., people came out Tuesday to meet their neighbors, have dinner, play games and simply enjoy the late summer evening.

California’s largest operator of recycling redemption centers has closed all 284 of its locations statewide, further throwing into disarray an already upended industry.

Twin sisters Jennifer DeVault and Erika Conrad made their dreams a reality earlier this year when they bought Cafe Ella from founder and previous owner Ella King.

Several Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputies assigned to guard the Main Jail were taken to the hospital Wednesday after they were exposed to an unknown substance.

The Santa Cruz Police Department is looking into three separate shooting incidents between July31 and Tuesday night.

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) is home to a new exhibit unlike anything it’s hosted before.

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to ban the sale of plastic water bottles at county facilities, and told Public Works staff to create an ordinance that would require a fee for single-use cups at food service establishments.