Detectives with the County Sheriff’s Office apprehended 67-year-old Kevin Hurley on March 21 after obtaining a warrant for ...

Mental health care should improve at Santa Cruz County jails, a report weighs potential solutions in a new jail or mental ...

Two sailors were rescued near Davenport after rough seas left their boat stranded, marking the second such incident in two weeks.

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The police blotter is published to give readers an abridged look at criminal activity in their community and neighborhood. It is simply an illustration of what local law enforcement, funded ...

A Santa Cruz family is receiving closure after authorities officially named a suspect in a woman's murder in 1976 on Thursday ...

A notorious California killer has been named as a suspect in the 1976 murder of a woman in Aptos, the small seaside town bordering Santa Cruz ... of charges dating back to the early ’60s ...

The backstory: Santa Cruz sheriff's deputies responded to Aptos Village Park on May 28, 1976, over reports of a dead woman. There, the body of 25-year-old Karen Percifield was found. Officials ...

A fatal collision on state Highway 1 at Laguna Road northwest of Santa Cruz has reduced the road to a single lane Saturday afternoon, the California Highway Patrol said. The ...

A man is in custody in Santa Fe after leading police and sheriff’s deputies on a chase through the city in a U-Haul truck ...