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Santa Cruz County residents should take steps to reduce mosquito populations and avoid being bitten after a bird was discovered with the West Nile Virus, the California Department of Public Health said Friday.

Just a few hours after an 18-hour trip from Redwood City that included a jaunt under the Bay Bridge, the Golden Rule docked in Santa Cruz Small Yacht Harbor for a two-week rest.

Thousands flocked to the World's Shortest Parade for a glimpse of the action in Aptos on Wednesday.

New United Way of Santa Cruz County Executive Director Keisha Frost was a fifth-grader when the local United Way brought in Boy and Girl Scout programs to her community.

"Beauty and the Beast" will be brought to the theater stage for local audiences when Cabrillo Stage brings the musical to life beginning Thursday.

The Watsonville City Council agreed to move forward with annexing half of an affordable housing development into city limits Tuesday, a decision City Manager Charles Montoya described as a showing of “goodwill” toward the county.

A tractor operator hauls a load of freshly boxed head lettuce off a field on Lee Road under the Taylor Farms label.

Ice skating isn’t an activity that one would usually associate with beach towns, but the cities of Capitola and Santa Cruz have set out to change that.

The massive cluster of wildfires in Napa County has so far clawed its way through nearly 192,000 acres, destroyed some 5,700 homes and businesses and killed 34 people. But it has also spewed smoke throughout the Bay Area, as far away as Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties.