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Soquel Creek Water District's John Henderson monitors the Rosedale well next to the district's office.

SANTA CRUZ >> A 36-year-old Santa Cruz woman was arrested on suspicion of felony arson Thursday night after she set fire to a house where she lived with her boyfriend, police said.

Contributed Sure, you may never have this many iris in your yard, but if you love the flowers, mark your calendar for Saturday's annual Monterey Bay iris Society rhizome sale, where many rare, sought-after specimens will be available for sale.

Voyager Therapeutics , a gene therapy company developing life-changing treatments for fatal and debilitating diseases of the central nervous system , is proud to announce that Senior Vice President of Neuroscience, Dinah Sah, Ph.D., and Vice President of Production, Rob Kotin, Ph.D., were each selected for inclusion in PharmaVOICE 's 100 most ... (more)

A Metro bus driver collided with a man walking in a crosswalk near Beach and Main streets in Watsonville on Thursday.

Captain Jim and Penny Rubin along with Bobbi and Augi Jenda have taken the Becky Ann on her final cruise out of the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor.

SUP Shack owner Trudie Ransom scoops a net full of dead anchovies into a bucket at the Santa Cruz harbor on Thursday afternoon.

Details: Deputies tried to contact Hernandez in Watsonville on Monday for drug related warrants, but he fled and was not arrested.

Funny thing about fish: Everybody loves a great fillet in a restaurant or mussels in a bistro, but few of us cook fish at home with any confidence, thanks to so many efforts that end with the ugly mess of a halibut steak stuck to the skillet, disintegrating before it even hits the plate.

What shape is the moon? When it's full, we'd all agree that it looks perfectly round.

Those races include local city councils and school boards, as well as fire, water and park districts and the Santa Cruz Port Commission.

The Homeless Services Center's wheels are not coming off in the meantime, however, said Board of Directors President Claudia Brown.

WHEREAS, The Santa Cruz County Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California believes that all four remaining defendants charged in the Santa Cruz Superior Court action collectively known as the "Occupy" cases, i.e., Gabriella Ripley-Phipps, Cameron Laurendeau, Franklin Alcantara and Brent Adams, are local activists working ... (more)

The Santa Cruz Water Department said one man eliminated a hefty fine caused by a running toilet by attending "water school."

Contained in 'All the Pages Are Our Days' is a screenplay co-authored by Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir's children's books, displays on the work of the lyricist Robert Hunter and many more artifacts.

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The Inupiat, like many indigenous tribal peoples, hold the belief that all things are inhabited by a spiritual essence that goes deeper than their outward expression.

A blue whale dives into the Pacific Ocean during a whale-watching show in southern California earlier this month.

NBC News reports that marijuana researcher Dr. Sue Sisley's appeal for reinstatement at the University of Arizona has been rejected by the university.

Maia Matteson and Kelly Geerdes, vacationing from Colorado, slap on the Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion Tuesday overlooking Cowell Beach.