Aptos News

Police investigating a report of a gang fight involving a baseball bat on the 500 block of Caledonia Street arrested a 17-year-old suspected gang member on a weapons charge Thursday.

A 17-year-old Aptos boy was arrested in Santa Cruz Thursday for possession of a dangerous weapon and fighting in public after officers responded to a reported gang fight, according to Santa Cruz police.

Santa Cruz County Sheriff-Coroner Phil Wowak was the guest speaker for the October Aptos Chamber breakfast meeting.

A citizen's ad hoc committee, the library director and residents in attendance Nov.

A woman died in an early morning fire Friday as flames engulfed her bedroom before help could reach her.

Seascape Beach Resort hosted an October dinner presentation to benefit the Aptos History Museum with local attorney and amateur historian Brian D. Liddicoat.

Who doesna TMt love a fundraiser! And when ita TMs as good as A Taste of Santa Cruz, then ita TMs too good to miss.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County still has a ways to go in this year's fundraising campaign to meet its $40,000 goal.

There has been a lot of focus on the H1N1 virus affecting people, but there's another new strain that many people haven't heard about that targets dogs.

Photographer Geoffrey Gilbert has written TV comedy sitcoms, written for Washington Post sports columnist Peter Vecsey, and now photographs life in and around Santa Cruz.

Scotts Valley High's "haunted hospital" did not seem like the kind of place that would do patients any good, but in reality it benefited those fighting cancer.

I'll bet there are many readers who would like to do something to commemorate Veterans Day.

The principal of the school that sold the grand prize raffle ticket in this year's Drive For Schools fundraiser is ecstatic, she said, because the win may help them raise more funds next year.

Watsonville Police officers arrested an Aptos woman who they say was the driver in a fatal hit-and-run on Friday night.

A middle-age woman was killed Friday night after she was struck crossing Airport Boulevard near Freedom Boulevard, according to police.

Opponents of Highway 1 widening have sued to stop construction of new lanes between Soquel Avenue and Morrissey Boulevard, arguing that the project is part of a larger plan to build carpool lanes on the county thoroughfare and has not been evaluated accordingly before building can begin.

Michael Spencer was in the middle of dinner with his wife and son Tuesday night when the garage of their Aptos home caught fire and quickly spread to the attic, engulfing the front of the white single-story house.

A jury on Friday convicted a former investment broker who recently lived in Aptos and attended Twin Lakes Church of 20 charges in a securities fraud case that involved bilking investors out of tens of thousands of dollars.

A round of applause to the Scotts Valley High students who recently put on the fall concert.

No one knows when the Earth will shake again, but when it does, students at Cypress Charter High School in Santa Cruz and many others across the county and state will know what to do.