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The Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency reported high bacteria levels Tuesday at Cowell Beach west of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf.

California Highway Patrol officers arrested two Santa Cruz area men in Sonoma County for allegedly transporting and selling marijuana Tuesday evening.

Logan MacMullan, who will turn 2 years old in June, creates a super painting at Westside Parent Education Nursery School located at Bay View Elementary School in Santa Cruz Tuesday.

Astronomers have identified galaxies where a central black hole just disrupted and 'ate' a star.

Where can you find the sweet sound of crashing waves, beautiful sandy beaches, tons of candy filled eggs and the Easter Bunny? The Capitola Village Easter Egg Hunt on the Beach, of course! Bring the kids out for a memorable time and some great photo opportunities on April 19. The Easter Bunny will be there and children 12 and younger can hunt for ... (more)

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A burger with parmasan and garlic tater tots is served up at KC's Sports Bar in downtown Santa Cruz.

Drug needles were thrown back into the spotlight Tuesday as the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors received an annual report by the county-run Syringe Services Program.

Santa Cruz >> Following the arrest of 22 UC Santa Cruz students during a two-day teaching assistant strike in April, the graduate student union has filed an additional unfair labor practice complaint against UC.

Michelle Rachleff, left, and her mentee, Claire Howell, are neighbors who got to know each other through the Big Sister, Little Sister program.

Hit >> Getting more people out on the San Lorenzo River can only boost efforts to protect it, which is why events like Saturday's recreational paddle are critical.

Body-painting, tattoo-story swapping, art and fashion transformations, plus a dress-up costume booth are all planned this Friday -- April 18 -- at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History's Fashion Art Santa Cruz .

Move To Amend Santa Cruz , activists seeking a constitutional amendment to upseat powerful, wealthy corporate influence, is presenting today to the Santa Cruz County Elections Office the signatures needed to qualify its cause for a November ballot measure.

Watsonville >> Watsonville's overall crime rate continued a five-year decline in 2013, with the lowest reported crimes per capita since 2004, according to a report released Monday by police.

As construction begins to wind down on the $1 million widening project along Soquel Avenue at Park Way, crews Tuesday will remove the old traffic signals so that new ones can be installed.

Dining out for Easter 2014? It's this coming Sunday; here are some restaurant highlights for Santa Cruz , San Francisco, and the Bay Area.

Sheriff Phil Wowak and Rep. Sam Farr get a look at the crime lab from Forensic Service Supervisor Lauren Zephro while touring the new Public Safety Center in Live Oak Monday.

Roger Crissman puts the finishing touches on a client's tax return in his Soquel Avenue office Monday.

Cementing protection for one of the largest privately owned pieces of land on California's 1,100-mile coastline, a San Francisco environmental group on Monday donated to the public the Coast Dairies property -- a pastoral expanse of rolling meadows, redwood forests and panoramic ocean views north of Santa Cruz.

Image Caption: Black Hole Caught Red-handed in a Stellar Homicide. Credit: NASA; S. Gezari ; and J. Guillochon When a star orbits too close to a galaxy's central supermassive black hole , it gets torn apart and sucked in by gravitational forces - a phenomenon known as an a tidal disruption .