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The Santa Cruz County Sheriff in California has asked residents to protest state authorities’ plans to release a rapist near a Girl Scout camp.
A professional sumo wrestling tournament will make its historic debut in California on Saturday, at the 2,500-seat Kaiser Permanente Arena.
We interview Adrian Belew in advance of his King Crimson-related project Beat performing concerts in Santa Cruz and Napa.
The donation, announced Monday, was given to the Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks by the Reyneri family of Los Altos and advances years-long efforts to rebu...
From Carlsbad to Malibu to Santa Cruz, erosion is already remaking the maps of popular beaches in dramatic ways.
California lifeguard Ryder Williams reunited with the 10-year-old boy he rescued in Santa Cruz as President Donald Trump praised his actions
President Donald Trump on Monday met with Ryder Williams, whose rescue of a 10-year-old from violent waves last month in Santa Cruz, California, garnered nat...
President Donald Trump met with Ryder Williams on Monday, a 16-year-old lifeguard who was seen rescuing a child in the California surf last month.
A car plunged off a cliff into the ocean at a well-known surf spot in Santa Cruz, California, early Thursday morning, leaving one occupant dead and a second...
A 16-year-old lifeguard who recently rescued a boy off the coast of Santa Cruz, California, received a special honor from the cast of the "Baywatch" revival.
Nathaniel Rai, 10, recounts his drowning experience in Santa Cruz, California, and how teen lifeguard Ryder Williams saved his life, leading to a lasting fri...
A 16-year-old lifeguard is being hailed a hero after rescuing a boy from a rip current off the coast of Santa Cruz, California, last month.
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A targeted shooting California inside a Spirit Halloween on the eve of the holiday has left one person dead and six injured, police said.
A one-line order from the justices ends a monthlong fight over roughly 20,000 ballots the administration wanted set aside, closing out the case on the eve of...
Follow results for Napa County’s city councils, mayors, school and college boards and Measure B, plus the Thompson–Jones congressional race, California g...
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A targeted shooting California inside a Spirit Halloween on the eve of the holiday has left one person dead and six injured, police said.
A one-line order from the justices ends a monthlong fight over roughly 20,000 ballots the administration wanted set aside, closing out the case on the eve of...
Follow results for Napa County’s city councils, mayors, school and college boards and Measure B, plus the Thompson–Jones congressional race, California g...
People have lived in the Santa Cruz region for at least 12,000 years. Before the Spanish came in the late 18th century, it was home to the Awaswas, an Ohlone people of no more than 1,000 whose territory ran from just north of Davenport to Rio Del Mar. Their language is extinct, surviving only in the place names Aptos, Soquel and Zayante and in the word abalone. The local Uypi tribe called the area Aulinta.
The Portola expedition, still looking for the port of Monterey that Sebastian Vizcaino had described in 1602, forded the river, probably near today's Soquel Avenue bridge, and camped nearby on October 17, 1769. The Franciscan Juan Crespi wrote that "this river was named San Lorenzo." The next morning, five hundred steps on, they crossed a running stream that they named El Arroyo de la Santisima Cruz, "the stream of the most holy cross." In 1791 Father Fermin Lasuen kept Crespi's name when he founded La Mision de la Exaltacion de la Santa Cruz, Mission Santa Cruz, the twelfth mission in California, to convert the Awaswas of the village of Chatu-Mu and nearby Ohlone villages. The stream itself later lost the name and is now called Laurel Creek, because it runs alongside Laurel Street. Sources Wikipedia: Santa Cruz, California
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