Santa Cruz News

This year's recipients of the Pursuit of Excellence Scholarship gather for a celebratory barbecue June 25. Photo courtesy of Dick Smallwood.

The San Francisco Mime Troupe creates and produces socially relevant theater of the highest professional quality and performs it before the broadest possible audience.

Steam rises around Santiago Lopez as he fries nopal cladode in downtown Santa Cruz on Sunday afternoon during the 5th annual Festival del Nopal.

Addi Somekh's ability to twist balloons into mind-bending art has taken the UC Santa Cruz graduate into unexpected directions.

Thousands of runners participated in a 6-mile run from Santa Cruz to Capitola on Sunday.

The 20th Annual Watsonville Strawberry Festival will take place 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 2 and 3 in historic downtown Watsonville around the City Plaza on Main, Peck and Union Streets.

Aptos restaurant Au Midi started two summer promotions last month, one for Wednesday and one for Thursday, and it just added a third which will occur every Tuesday.

I have lived near the homeless shelter in the Harvey West area for 12 years. The original goals of that facility were compassionate, and the first few years were commendable.

Santa Cruz's Mike Dilloughery, 48, is believed to be the first person to solo paddle from Santa Cruz to Monterey and back.

Santa Cruz's Mike Dilloughery, 48, is believed to be the first person to solo paddle from Santa Cruz to Monterey and back.

In 1981, Royal Kenneth Hayes lured a San Francisco couple to the University of California, Santa Cruz, for what was supposed to be a $250,000 cocaine deal.

Sheryl Guidera, the owner of Kaleidoscope Toy Store, is looking to sell and retire after owning the business for 25 years.

Kiley Rose Garcia , a 6-pound, 13-ounce girl, was born to Trinity Lynn and Freddy Omar Garcia of Felton at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz.

Just named by the World Open Water Swimming Association as one of America's Top Open Water Swims! This one-mile swim around the historic Santa Cruz Wharf attracts ocean swimmers from all over Northern California.

A pedestrian and bike path is slated to open in November inside Arana Gulch. The project could go 300,000 over its construction budget because of unforeseen difficulties with a suspension bridge.

Lisa Jensen is the author of the novels, Alias Hook , and The Witch From the Sea , proprietress of the arts and entertainment blog, Lisa Jensen Online Express , and longtime film critic and columnist for the alternative weekly, Good Times , in Santa Cruz, CA.

If the fog burns off on Friday, Santa Cruzans will be surprised by what they see.

Gretchen Rubio-Lopez, 1, reacts to a vaccination shot given to her by medical assistant Vanessa Munoz as she is held by her mother, Veronica Rubio, at the Salud Para La Gente Health Clinic in Watsonville.

Caltrans will begin an overnight project to install traffic cameras along six miles of Highway 1 from Freedom Boulevard in Aptos to Soquel Drive in Santa Cruz Monday at 9 p.m. No traffic delays are anticipated since no lane closures are required, but motorists should be aware of work crews in the area.

Cabrillo Festival's Church Street Fair! Celebrating its 23rd year, this two-day festival offers an inspiring reflection of the arts in Santa Cruz.