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

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.

In true singer-songwriter spirit, John Craigie’s shows feel a bit more like intimate dialogue than performances, with their ...

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

Oscar Rene Coronado and Francisco J. Landin Jr. for the Nogales International Film Festival — border wall film festival ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Jaramillo says the Upper Rio Grande Valley emerged as the cradle of lowrider car culture in the 1960s as Vietnam War ...

Art in Public Places (APP), a recently formed nonprofit initiative, is taking applications for its 2025 Community Art Grant, a $10,000 annual fund dedicated to aiding local artists’ professional ...

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 ...