Former Santa Cruz mayor and longtime city leader Mike Rotkin died at his home on Wednesday. He was 79.

A cyclist arrives at the Garfield Park Library on Woodrow Avenue in Santa Cruz on Thursday, where local author and nationally ...

Beloved community member, five-time Santa Cruz Mayor and longtime UC Santa Cruz lecturer Mike Rotkin, 79, died Wednesday at ...

City Hall's flags have been lowered in remembrance of former mayor and activist Mike Rotkin, who passed earlier this mmonth.

Mike Rotkin arrived in Santa Cruz in 1969, not long after the University of California, and soon not only became a pillar of ...

As they have for more than 100 years, thousands of visitors will head out to Santa Cruz’s beaches and famous wharf over Memorial Day Weekend, heralding the beginning of summer. The sea lions ...

Cottonwood shoots along the Santa Cruz River near Mission San Xavier stand 2 or 3 feet tall. Some seep willows — members of the sunflower family — are just a little shorter. Cattails jut 3 ...

A water rescue happened this evening off West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz.According to Santa Cruz police, a man jumped into the ocean from the cliff near Its Beach. That's just west of the ...

California Highway Patrol says that a tall tree fell in the Santa Cruz Mountains, blocking a road. The 60-foot tree fell on Highway 236 at Acorn Drive and moved wires across the road. There is a ...