In her weekly survey of local business, Jessica M. Pasko looks ahead to the first guests finally checking in to the ...

A statewide prohibition on parking minimums has placed cities like Santa Cruz in a tough spot as it prepares to permit ...

Santa Cruz city officials approved a plan to explore multiple aid measures for businesses affected by the three-year Murray ...

Santa Cruz County nonprofit Community Bridges and six other Bay Area and health organizations are backing a lawsuit against ...

Verve added a 5% fee at its cafés to help cover health benefits for full-time employees, but baristas say the most coffeehouse workers don’t qualify.

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Years of construction at Santa Cruz High, meant to modernize the historic campus, have instead created a maze of fencing and ...

Welcome to Lily Belli on Food, a weekly food-focused newsletter from Lookout’s food and drink correspondent, Lily Belli. Keep ...

Matt Machado, the county’s director of community development and infrastructure, is an avid biker who was hit twice by cars ...

As crews began to clear the Pajaro River levee encampment on Monday, some of the workers are homeless themselves — and ...

Lookout Santa Cruz reviews the public filings from local businesses to report on new businesses starting in the area.

Watsonville activist Omar Dieguez is embarking on a 30-day hunger strike, protesting the use of pesticides on agricultural ...