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Last year, Aptos High School started an Aptos Rail-Trail Club to find a cheap and quick approach to implement the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Scenic Trail Network.

Jason Mraz has quietly amassed a youthful, diverse, and vibrant fan-base throughout all parts of the globe.

Orchard School's third through sixth graders showed off their talents to family and friends at Wednesday's Science Fair.

These 30-minute free guided tours offered at 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm are led by docents from UCSC's Seymour Marine Discovery Center.

The question led to the 12-year-old to her project's hypothesis for the annual Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair on Saturday at the county fairgrounds.

A neighborhood group will ask the City Council on Tuesday to require operators of Santa Cruz's only crematorium to conduct a formal environmental study of potential mercury emissions before relocating to a site that could help a long-delayed rental housing development.

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.