Nancy Miller Gomez is the county’s new poet laureate for 2025-26, having officially been announced to the position at the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors’ Jan. 28 meeting.

When many people think about images of vintage California surfing, they primarily picture ads or album covers from the 1950s ...

Adrian Gonzalez spent years wearing masks to cover up who he really was, a Santa Cruz County prosecutor said in her closing ...

The "Capitola Classic," organized by the Santa Cruz Boardroom, turned the former Sears store in the Capitola Mall into a street-themed skatepark. A total of 260 contestants competed for a prize pool ...

The discovery by UC Santa Cruz researchers ... to be celebrated by the science community, this time by winning the prestigious AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize. UC Santa Cruz alumna Gillian Welch (Porter ...

What better time than stormy February to celebrate the richness of Santa Cruz’s literary community? What better time to read poetry than a stormy day amid political upheaval? Here, Lookout launches an ...

With the long weekend nearly here, check out Wallace Baine’s Best 9 recommendations for things to do around Santa Cruz County ...

The Filipinx American artist describes the ‘deep cellular shift’ they experienced while researching their new paintings for ...

These bayside communities are among the best places to live, work, and play in 2025. Whether you’re looking for a laid-back ...

Pajaro Valley Health Care District Chair Tony Nuñez writes about Watsonville Community Hospital-its past, present and future.

Nearly eight years after taking the helm at Cabrillo College, President Matt Wetstein has announced his retirement.

State lawmakers are embracing New Mexico’s time-honored culture of transforming customized “lowrider” cars into rolling ...