The federal government typically covers 75% of rebuilding costs after a major disaster. President-elect Donald Trump has ...

Santa Cruz writer Liza Monroy's new novel, "The Distractions," is an uncanny and plausible look into the near future, in ...

Recently reelected Watsonville City Council member Jimmy Dutra says local media, including Lookout, sensationalized his civil ...

California craft distillers' bid to make pandemic-era direct shipping permanent faces a series of challenges, state Sen. John ...

The environmental impacts of Santa Cruz's planned expansion of its downtown — a potentially generational change to the look ...

Santa Cruz's Venus Spirits is among a coalition of California craft distillers urging state legislators to make permanent ...

The state agency responsible for holding employers accountable for workplace safety has launched an investigation into the Dec. 23 Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf collapse, a spokesperson for Cal/OSHA ...

Cal Fire firefighters from the San Mateo-Santa Cruz and Santa Clara units have traveled to Los Angeles County to fight the ...

The legislative analyst has a plan to fix the "structural insolvency" of the unemployment benefits fund — but businesses aren ...

Some Northern California cities have been soaked with almost twice their average rainfall, while southern cities are bone-dry ...

Occupational therapist Molly Turner founded Skills of Life Café to help individuals with special needs get job training.

Nurses at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz say staffing levels aren’t meeting the needs of patients who are arriving with ...