These California beach towns offer boardwalk fun, hidden coves, harbor views, and laid-back main streets perfect for a slow ...

Coming up on the Santa Cruz Patch calendar: Empty Nest and All the Rest: A one-man comedy show by Clay Hausmann ...

Happening soon: Corralitos Farm & Garden Market on the Watsonville Patch calendar ...

Most of the research conducted around rising oceans might have misjudged the rising coastal hazards by an approximate of 20 ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 1:30 p.m. at in Santa Cruz County, California. Doon Fire has been burning on private land. Currently, there is no data indicating the containment progress of the ...

After a catastrophic outbreak of bird flu devastated southern elephant seal populations in 2023, scientists are on high alert.

Surfers, scientists and city officials agree Santa Cruz beaches have lost a lot of sand. Some worry it could change surf ...

Architect Benjamin McGriff and design firm Chroma transformed the blufftop home into a boatlike refuge filled with wave-inspired details and sweeping views of Monterey Bay ...

If you’ve been eyeing a Toyota Tacoma this spring, Toyota’s latest lease offer puts the SR5 Double Cab within reach at $289 a ...

There’s growing alarm that “children, young people, and many who are not so young” are “spending more and more time glued to ...

A majority of California’s roughly 180,000 people experiencing homelessness have health insurance through Medi-Cal. Providers predict that many will lose insurance under President Donald Trump’s ...

If you can’t survive outside or would have a hard time surviving outside in that weather, unhoused people are too,” said one ...