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.

sutter hospital ALLEN: May 10, 11:04 p.m., to Amy Lorraine Howton and William Jessie Allen, Santa Cruz, an 7-pound, 12-ounce boy, Thomas Craig Allen The May 20 edition of Births...

New jungle boots all lined up in a row Signifying the young soldiers who wouldn't grow old It was our custom after a battle to show this respect As we stood there at attention with...

No words can describe the depth of sadness we feel as a community over the recent and shocking murder of Shannon Collins, which took place midday in a Santa Cruz neighborhood.

More than 150 years ago, immigrant Chinese fishermen launched sampans into the chilly waters of Monterey Bay to capture squid.

SANTA CRUZ - After a decade of dormancy, the UCSC Pow Wow is making a comeback. On Saturday, the campus community gathered to hold a Drum Feast, a smaller community gathering similar...

Media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner got a lift to a mechanic from a European couple visiting the coast after Turner's Jeep broke down near Big Sur.

Sticklers for grammar - and I count myself one of them - go a little bit crazy whenever they hear someone apply degrees to the word "unique.

SANTA CRUZ — Diana Gilon, her hands and blue jeans speckled with paint, stands in front of a mural boldly pronouncing, “Peace Starts Here.

SANTA CRUZ — Local contractors are reporting an uptick in work this spring, a welcome change after the recession hit four years ago, followed by the housing crash and a weak...

As Esalen marks its 50th anniversary, long-time fans say New Age retreat center has gone corporate.