Local News

A collage by a student named Jeremy, grade 8, was created in the art class of Janas Durkee at Pacific Coast Charter School in Watsonville.

In an era where agriculture meshes with technology — and environmental sustainability is a rule — Cabrillo College has created a major that combines all three.

Cabrillo College on Tuesday became the first college in California to adapt a program created to help educators and school employees afford new homes.

Four Santa Cruz filmmakers set out to bring a historic expedition out of obscurity. The result was a feature-length historical-nature-adventure documentary called “The Devil’s Road.”

A single-wide mobile home was gutted by flames early Friday morning inside the Blue Pacific Mobile Home Park, 220 Mar Vista Drive in the Seacliff area of Aptos.

The Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission announced the four winners of the annual Trailblazers Awards recently.

The Santa Cruz Chorale will close out its 2018-2019 season April 27-28. The performance features selections from Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn.

Kids2Parks offers free educational field trips in local State Parks to select Title 1 elementary schools in Santa Cruz, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Teachers apply online for the free field trips and will be informed by May 8 if their application was selected. 

APTOS — Nearly 3,000 fourth-grade students from around Santa Cruz County came to Cabrillo College’s Aptos campus early in March to get their first taste of college life and, organizers hope, show them that post-secondary education is within their reach.

The boys recently rescued a 4-year-old girl from drowning. That happened on March 24, while they were attending a birthday party for a friend of their sister at Santa Maria Beach, which lies at the end of 21st Avenue in Santa Cruz.