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As pet owners know all too well, the downside to sharing your heart, life and home with a pet is that cats, dogs, rabbits and other domestic animals don't live as long as people do.

Santa Cruz-based novelist Karen Joy Fowler is one of five finalists for the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

The Santa Cruz County Clerk will hold special passport hours 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at the county Clerk/Elections Department, 701 Ocean St., Room 210, Santa Cruz.

A 24-year-old Santa Cruz man was arrested Tuesday after he exposed himself inside Sears in the Capitola Mall, Capitola police said.

The clips in this video were recorded over several weeks and numerous multi-rotor flights at multiple locations along the beautiful coastline of Santa Cruz, CA, on Monterey Bay.

The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group announces its 19th Annual Spring Forward Against Cancer Gala on Saturday, April 12, 2014 at the Cocoanut Grove Ballroom in Santa Cruz at 5:30 p.m. Guests will be transported back in time with a Boardwalk Empire themed gala, with period dress optional.

Trucks from Las Animas Concrete lined up on River Street on a sunny Friday, signaling progress on the first new affordable apartment construction in the city of Santa Cruz in seven years.

On the eve of a trial set for Friday, a 48-year-old Santa Cruz County man pleaded guilty to robbing Wells Fargo Bank in Santa Cruz in the fall.

Unemployment was 11.1 percent in January, up from 9.2 percent in December largely due to ag and retail seasonal job losses.

Girls who play with Barbie dolls tend to see fewer career options available to them compared with the options available to boys, according to a new study by researchers at Oregon State and UC Santa Cruz.

Guernsey's says the earliest instrument in the collection dates to 1840. The newest is a 2000 re-creation of a 1930 Martin masterpiece, called an OM-45 Deluxe.

Two men who pleaded guilty last month to severely beating San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow in Los Angeles in 2011 were indicted Wednesday on federal weapons charges.

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Steve Martin is currently in the fifth decade of a uniquely varied and accomplished career in which he's excelled as a comedian, actor, author and playwright, and as a Grammy-winning, boundary-pushing bluegrass banjoist and composer.

As soon as daylight-saving time kicks in, Santa Cruz Harbor fires up its Wednesday sailboat races for the season.

Around two dozen UC Santa Cruz students spent Wednesday night in a campus administration building, protesting UC President Janet Napolitano's tenure.

Around two dozen UC Santa Cruz students spent Wednesday night in a campus administration building, protesting UC President Janet Napolitano's tenure.

Every three months, an affable din rises from crowded tables at the Center Street Grill as Santa Cruz area women gather for dinner, decide on a worthy recipient for their philanthropy and write out $100 checks.

Angela Davis , author and activist, professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Last summer, four alleged leaders of rival prison gangs worked together to coordinate a hunger strike at California's Pelican Bay State Prison.