A collection of images, stories and tweets from around Santa Cruz County during the holiday weekend.

Wants nothing to do with McPherson I absolutely don't want Bruce McPherson to represent me. Since I live in the unincorporated part of the county that makes up a large part of the 5th...

It wasn't supposed to be this way. Facebook sold shares to the public for the first time on May 18. As the most highly anticipated public offering since Google went public in 2004,...

For most of us, Memorial Day is just a three-day weekend that kicks off summer. Locally, it's a weekend filled with events, holiday crowds and traffic, along with a reminder for...

We all know people who have messed themselves up with drugs. For the past century, the conventional U.

My grandson, Daniel, has turned 14, is six feet tall, blue-eyed and towers over his fellow eighth-graders.

Friends of Hospice hosted its 12th annual Fairways for Kids golf fundraiser on May 9 at Seascape Golf Resort.

The U.S. Postal Service announced a plan to preserve post offices in small towns and rural communities across the country while looking to achieve cost savings and return to financial...

It is common for individuals who have been discouraged with the state of their marriage and have tried to mend it to eventually ask themselves, "Did I just marry the wrong person?

Lash-Stover Lindsay Lash and Mike Stover are engaged to be married Oct. 13 in Corralitos. Lash lives in Santa Cruz.