Two big Santa Cruz County projects installing and improving bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure are still on track for a ...

Santa Cruz County has completed environmental testing to gauge the Moss Landing battery plant fire’s impact on local air, water, soil and agriculture, it announced Friday. While results show that ...

Lookout columnist Claudia Sternbach has decided to end her biweekly column, which started in 2022 as a look at aging in Santa Cruz and morphed into a moving chronicle of grief when her beloved husband ...

Adam Hardesty says state law gives him the right to turn his garage into an accessory dwelling unit. His Carlsbad HOA says it ...

The fire at the Vistra Corp. lithium-ion battery storage facility in Moss Landing flared again late Tuesday afternoon but has ...

An update from Lookout CEO Ken Doctor as we reflect on the ways big national stories also are profoundly local ones.

As deportation fears loom under Donald Trump's second administration, undocumented agriculture workers in Watsonville ...

Work is set to wrap up in the summer on 17 miles of hiking trails in Santa Cruz County’s Cotoni-Coast Dairies National ...

Don’t miss Capitola-based baker Danielle Orlando’s pastries at The Chocolate Studio, open now in downtown Santa Cruz. That's ...

UC Santa Cruz workers from six different unions, including those representing graduate students, contractors and dining ...

The home design team at Santa Cruz Green Builders shares their residential remodeling and new construction best practices.

With the weekend nearly here, check out Wallace Baine’s Best 9 recommendations for things to do around Santa Cruz County via ...