Santa Barbara, CA – Montecito Bank & Trust kicked off the holiday season by celebrating its 23rd Annual Community Dividends awards luncheon on Monday ...

A rescue call near the UC Santa Cruz campus escalated into a major emergency on Saturday after two people became trapped high in a redwood tree. One man fell an estimated 80 feet while firefighters ...

Yahir Leon of Coyote Bait in Morgan Hill reported a consistent perch surf bite from Santa Cruz to Watsonville if the water ...

Measure C passed with just 54% support, leaving nearly half of Santa Cruz city residents not wanting it. Some of those naysayers are concerned about loopholes, transparency and who will actually ...

The new Santa Cruz Mountains Heritage District is located within the Santa Cruz American Viticultural Area, which comprises approximately 1,600 acres of vineyards and more than 70 wineries producing ...

The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is hosting its Winter Wonderland celebration from Thursday through Jan. 4. Admission is free, ...

Home to California's first oil boomtown, legendary movie ranches and, yes, Six Flags Magic Mountain, the L.A. suburb has a ...

Local History columnist Ross Eric Gibson shares his column this week with local historian Carolyn Swift to tell the story of Judy Steen’s list of notable Santa Cruz County women throughout ...

• Many plants have quiet explosions of white blossoms in cold weather. Coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis) produces white to ...

Delta stripers, bass and sturgeon bites good, Alan Fong said. Don Pedro trout biting, Aaron Jones reported. Isabella bass and ...

After Shasta had a gap of more than 18,000 ballots in its estimates, questions began about what happened. We asked elections ...