Yrachis, a Chipuctac man who was famously misidentified as Justiniano Roxas, an Indigenous man who lived at Mission Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz’s official government website now offers a brisk virtual tour ...

This spring quarter, UC Santa Cruz Humanities students immersed themselves in the story of three Hawaiian princes who introduced surfing to the United States in the late 19th century, using Santa Cruz ...

SANTA CRUZ — Here’s a fun activity: Ask anybody — it doesn’t even need to be somebody local — what things they most associate with Santa Cruz. If surfing is not the first thing they bring up, it ...

SANTA CRUZ — If there’s one thing that’s become especially apparent in the social media era, it’s that people really love their pets. Log onto Facebook or Instagram, and you will likely see at least a ...

Advertising Feature: This article is not produced by the newsroom. It is editorially independent of both the newsroom and any one advertiser. From the shoreline of Monterey Bay to the peaks of the ...

June 2, 1956, was the night that the Santa Cruz Police Department decided to ban rock and roll music, after Chuck Higgins' concert in the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. During the concert, about 200 ...