Per the Oct. 15 Santa Cruz City Council meeting, the draft environmental impact report (DEIR) on the city’s Downtown Expansion Plan will likely be released this month, giving the public 45 days in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Mike Johnson won the House Republican nomination Wednesday to remain as House speaker, on track to ...

It is baffling that Measure Z is currently winning by a little over 800 votes. We already pay just shy of 10% sales tax in our city and now it looks like those who like to drink sugary drinks are ...

Santa Cruz city and county CORE funding recommendations have been announced, and child care has been abandoned. Decades-long partnerships with the city and county previously allowed multiple nonprofit ...

Now that Donald Trump has been improbably reelected, the first question he should be asked is, “Mr. President-elect, sir, could you please tell us exactly how the Democrats ‘rigged’ and otherwise ...

The new president isn’t even sworn in yet and Gov. Gavin Newsom is already making battle plans to resist on all fronts and all ways. I guess we’ve earned the title of Commie-fornia. Just as the ...

Here you are, now, a full-time, professional firefighter at the department,” said Scotts Valley firefighter Brian Green.

We’re playing Russian roulette with the climate and we don’t know what’s in the loaded chamber. One thing that could be there is disruption of AMOC — the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — ...

A recent letter writer (Nov. 12) wants to immediately “end the discussion” about the GOP win as she emphatically points to the fact that a rapist and felon was elected to the presidency. What she ...

While I’m excited about the important new student housing at Cabrillo, I am sorry to see that it will displace the soccer fields that have been used by this community for decades — most recently, ...

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It is increasingly difficult to read the news today without encountering reminders of the challenges our community faces in addressing the impending Silver Tsunami. Our senior population is ...