Defying January doldrums, Lookout food and drink correspondent Lily Belli launches a monthly food-and-drink dispatch from Santa Cruz County’s dining scene. She selects from a month of eating to ...

"We know investigations often lag, but the lack of clear information leads us to ask troubling questions," the Lookout Editorial Board writes more than a year after the massive fire at the Moss ...

Watsonville Community Hospital reflects the growing fragility of Santa Cruz County’s health care system, strained by rising costs, workforce shortages and declining reimbursements. Despite real ...

Dozens of mothers with young children marched in Aptos on Friday, while about 80 nurses and supporters rallied outside Dominican Hospital in Live Oak as part of anti-ICE protests across Santa Cruz ...

More than 1,000 students from local schools staged a walkout and marched through downtown Santa Cruz on Friday to protest ...

Volunteers from all over Santa Cruz County met at the crack of dawn Thursday to conduct this year’s point-in-time count, an ...

Chef and restaurateur Tim Wood plans to open Woody’s at Watsonville Airport by mid-March, bringing the third location of his ...

The Capitola Avenue bridge project is finally complete, and reopened for traffic Friday afternoon. It’s been closed since March 2024.

South Highway 17 at Sugarloaf Road in Scotts Valley is facing closures for emergency work. The closure is expected to end at ...

Santa Cruz County's road network is in “fair” condition, according to its public works department. However, there is a large ...

Close to 4,000 employees of the California Department of Public Health were told they must use the federal E-Verify system to ...

With the weekend nearly here, check out things to do around Santa Cruz County, with a recommendation from Lookout correspondent Lily Belli and a specially curated list from Lookout's BOLO events ...