Mendez will join Santa Cruz County after serving as deputy chief probation officer in Madera County, where she oversaw ...

While 2025 saw many beloved businesses shutter, the year also welcomed many new ones, from retailers to restaurants, ...

Santa Cruz County lost a number of prominent people in 2025, including activists, journalists, artists and academics.

Watsonville resident Christian Gomez will be honored by nonprofit Donor Network West at the 2026 Rose Parade in Pasadena.

California showed it was serious about regulating Big Tech in 2025 — and Big Tech showed it was serious about coming to the statehouse and fighting back. The upshot was a barrage of laws designed to ...

The latest in Santa Cruz County food & drink news, notes, recommendations and more from Lookout correspondent Lily Belli.

Businesses operating in Santa Cruz County must register with the county clerk. Lookout Santa Cruz reviews the public filings ...

The City of Watsonville has chosen Corey Schaefer, a 27-year fire department veteran, as its next chief, following the ...

First-generation students lack the extra help with exams and college applications that rich kids' families can buy. A new program and tax could change that, writes Alondra Martinez, a Stanford ...

Sasha Pavy, a shy 24-year-old UCSC graduate, emerged as an unlikely leader of a successful 2024 unionization drive at three Verve Coffee Roasters cafés, rallying coworkers around higher wages, ...

New Pajaro Valley Unified School District board president Carol Turley’s first meeting in the role was marked by frequent interruptions of fellow trustees and a stricter enforcement of agenda limits, ...

Margaret and Roya Ghodsi, a mother-daughter duo from Capitola, are emblematic of a growing number of local residents not active in politics before 2025 who began to participate in protests after ...