Nancy Miller Gomez is the county’s new poet laureate for 2025-26, having officially been announced to the position at the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors’ Jan. 28 meeting.

Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an emergency proclamation for Santa Cruz County to assist in recovering from the December 2024 ...

Feb. 12 – In what appears to be the first known case of a deportation in Santa Cruz County since Donald Trump returned as ...

The Santa Cruz City Council voted this week to reaffirm its sanctuary city policy, a largely symbolic show of support to the ...

Santa Cruz County has already been gaining national attention for groundbreaking unionization efforts led by young workers, including at local Starbucks and REI locations. Now, new survey data show ...

Many of the research proposals that seem wholly unrelated to DEI were likely flagged because they included language about broadening the participation of women and underrepresented groups in science, ...