I am dismayed that a police chase on West Cliff Drive resulted in a death. Admittedly I do not know all the circumstances but...

Who can forget their first ride on the Giant Dipper? It’s a rite of passage, a risk of passage for locals and some 2 million tourists a year.

ARIES March 21-April 19 Polish-born author Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) didn’t begin to speak English until he was 21 years old. At 25, his writing in...

This week, Good Times reporter John Koenig finds Santa Cruzans to get their take on the proposed clocktower center downtown.

In March our noteworthy hometown earned a new ranking on a short list of 11 Blue Zone cities in all the US, second only to Boulder, Colorado

ARIES March 21-April 19 When my friend Jessalyn first visited Disneyland as a child, she was smitten by its glimmering, unblemished mystery. “It was far...

During my brief running phase, I ran in the Santa Cruz to Capitola Wharf to Wharf Race. I was dead last. The guy who...

I found the reactions that were printed about the first Take a Hike column were over the top and clearly triggered individuals.

As I hear stories about people leaving Santa Cruz for more affordable housing, I think about my walk downtown last Friday night....

There’s a cartoon in the 9/9/22 New Yorker that shows salmon jumping upstream over rocks with leopards, pelicans, crocodiles, raccoons, lions, alligators and wolves...

ARIES March 21-April 19 The world’s record for jumping rope in six inches of mud is held by an Aries. Are you surprised? I’m not....

It looked like the new cannabis dispensary at the old Emily’s Bakery site on Mission Street was approved…but all of a sudden there’s been a fear campaign