As AI unsettles career expectations, Santa Cruz County students are reconsidering their paths. Roz Spafford explores local enrollment trends, students’ concerns and why educators emphasize subject knowledge, collaboration and learning to adapt.
From pinball to midway prizes, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s High Score exhibit celebrates the Boardwalk’s gaming past. Vintage machines, archival surprises and playable favorites reveal how generations found fun and connection at the arcade.
From unsettling nights at Brookdale Lodge to neighborhood ghost stories, author Aubrey Graves explores more than 100 locations in Supernatural Santa Cruz: The Ultimate Edition
Measure D would expand Santa Cruz County’s coastal protections, giving voters a say over new onshore infrastructure supporting offshore drilling and seabed mining.
The Santa Cruz County Governmental Center on Ocean Street in Santa Cruz was evacuated Friday morning—along with the adjacent Superior Courthouse—after a suspicious white...
Sleepbomb brings a live psychedelic and post-doom score to the 1931 Frankenstein at the Rio Theatre, inviting fresh sympathy for its misunderstood creature.
UCSC’s Festival of Monsters returns Oct. 14–18 with horror scholarship, authors, comics and free public events exploring the language of monstrosity.
King Crimson classics, guitar wizardry and a Zappa encore echoed through the redwoods as Terry Bozzio joined Adrian Belew, Steve Vai and Tony Levin for BEAT’s tour opener at UCSC’s Quarry Amphitheater.
A Romero Institute town hall brings Santa Cruz leaders and activists together to discuss voting rights, civic courage and the power of community participation.
UC Santa Cruz student Oliver Levine paddles 48 miles across Monterey Bay and back, navigating darkness, bioluminescence and self-doubt on a 12-foot board without a support boat.
Adrian Belew talks King Crimson, BEAT’s dream-band chemistry and new drummer Terry Bozzio as the quartet prepares to open its final North American tour of Crimson music at the Quarry in Santa Cruz.
Another battery fire at Moss Landing has renewed fears among restaurant owners, who describe lost sales, missed emergency alerts and uncertainty about their businesses’ future.
