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The county has received nearly $100 million in federal stimulus funds, including money to replace the old Davenport water treatment plant Nearly $100 million of federal stimulus has been awarded in Santa Cruz County, according to government data released this week.

Local travel agent Scott Pinheiro finds himself competing with the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce once again.

City leaders can legally throw disruptive audience members out of public meetings and arrest them if they don't go, an appeals court ruled this week, settling a lawsuit filed seven years ago after gadfly Robert Norse gave the mayor a straight-armed Nazi salute, refused to leave when asked and was taken away in handcuffs.

When an East Coast native and his Asian wife moved to Santa Cruz in the late '90s, their search for familiar foods turned up empty -- Where were the family-run diners? The restaurants serving pho? -- so the couple built a one-stop shop to suit their tastes.

Share + Nov 6, 2009 9:53 am US/Pacific SAN JOSE Health officials are holding free H1N1 flu vaccinations throughout the Bay Area Saturday, but the vaccines will only be available for people at the highest risk for illness from the virus.

A S MORNING broke on Oct. 20, little was different about Pacific Avenue. Some defied the few patrolling police cruisers by smoking on the sly, concealing their sins in their pockets.

The woman accused of driving drunk and causing a collision that killed two men on Highway 1 north of Santa Cruz pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning to two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. a " Santa Cruz leaders are considering clamping down on the city's nightclubs, with police complaining that they've created security issues downtown.The city relaxed its liquor laws after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to help businesses draw visitors back.Now, according to city estimates, Santa Cruz has at least twice the ...

For the third time, a Watsonville man accused of a gang-related stabbing on Chestnut Street sat in court for the opening of his jury trial.

Rose Cutrer and Ben Von Dielingen were checking out the ring selection at Dell Williams Jewelers when they learned if they made the purchase on Tuesday, the store would pay the sales tax.

The University of California-Santa Cruz could someday house the world's largest zoo - holding not live animals, but the genetic codes of 10,000 different creatures, many of them rare, exotic or extinct.

Organizers of a petition drive to ask the Mormon church to reconsider its policies and political activism against gay marriage are set to deliver the documents to church headquarters.

A funny thing has happened since the Obama administration recently declared it would stop cracking down on medical marijuana in states that allow it like California: While strait-laced, law-abiding San Jose is considering a pitch to attract more medical pot clubs, surf city Santa Cruz is signaling enough is enough.

A man accused of shooting his mother and brother during a family dispute in a Westside home two years ago will stand trial, a judge ruled Tuesday.

The woman suspected of being drunk behind the wheel of a van involved in a fatal collision Highway 1 on Sunday afternoon had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit of 0.08 at the time of the crash, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Suspected gang members hanging out downtown during Saturday night's 15,000-person-strong Halloween celebration had some unwelcome chaperones, police reported.

Santa Cruz police are releasing a sketch this week of a man who allegedly sexually assaulted two women in the city in October.

The nightly attacks by two man-eating lions terrified railway workers and brought construction to a halt in one of east Africa's most notorious onslaughts more than a hundred years ago.

They may have been the world's most famous man-eating lions, but it turns out they made other dinner arrangements from time to time.

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.