One of the most iconic images associated with Santa Cruz is a logo that bears its name. The “Red Dot” logo for the company ...

Years after Americans watched George Jetson zip to work in his airborne cartoon commuter, the flying taxi may be ... The campus, based on a former Army base, is not far from the Santa Cruz Mountains ...

Santa Cruz graphic artist Jim Phillips, the man behind the famed Red Dot and Screaming Hand logos, is the subject of a new documentary from filmmaker John Makens. The new film, showing at the Rio on ...

Thairie Ritchie, a well-known Santa Cruz community organizer, reportedly self-immolated Jan. 20 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day ...

The Santa Cruz County Office of Education has announced the results of the 2025 Santa Cruz County Spelling Bee, which took ...

It has been more than a month since the iconic Santa Cruz wharf was partially damaged by powerful waves. With more rain in ...

Irreverent jokes fly a mile a minute with little time to land in this graphic novel adaptation centered on a policeman with a dog’s head protecting his city from his cat arch-nemesis. “Dog Man ...

Two days before Christmas, the Santa Cruz area was hit by the biggest ocean swell in 30 years. The huge waves tore apart a portion of the city's municipal wharf and it has been closed to the ...

It’s Saturday afternoon and downtown Santa Cruz is wildly alive. Crosswalks and sidewalks are teeming with folks carrying bags filled with retail goodies. A line spills out of the ice cream shop.

If you ever walk down the Santa Cruz boardwalk with its saltwater-taffy paint scheme and nostalgic carnival rides and think, “This is like a Wes Anderson movie” – you’re not alone.

As a torrent of mud, timber and boulders roared through Foreman Creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Dec. 13, 2021, video later posted to YouTube by county officials showed an avalanche of debris ...