Joshua Menkens was charged in March with homicide, desecration of a corpse and possession of a prohibited weapon following ...

Joshua Menkens brutally killed Neil Sutcliffe’s towards the end of a four-day bash called the ‘Mad Hatter’s Tea Party’ in ...

On the Galapagos’ most developed island, researchers are tracking a growing threat to the millennia-old migration routes of giant tortoises.

More than half of the school board races in 49 counties analyzed won't appear on the November ballot because either no one is ...

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After parsing through a series of state bills passed in Sacramento, county planning staff will present the commission with ...

As of 2:15, firefighters had stopped forward progress, though crews were still fighting small spot fires in the area.

CAL FIRE says that multiple fires are being reported in South Santa Cruz County. The fires are burning Highway 1 near Buena ...

Police booked a 45-year-old man into jail after a weekend fight led to an attempted stabbing downtown, an authority said.

( JTA) — LOS ANGELES — Two pro-Israel activists have been arrested in the latest fallout from a violent clash at UCLA’s ...

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The city council is set to consider a strategy to temper new Downtown Santa Cruz building heights and support ...