As UC Santa Cruz students gear up for the annual 4/20 gathering at Porter Meadow, the campus' once-legendary status as a stoner paradise is fading. Cannabis legalization, Gen Z's changing social ...

Jess Brown of the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau and Laura Owen of Santa Cruz Community Credit Union are among those being ...

SANTA CRUZ — Officials announced this week that the Trump administration terminated the F-1 visas issued to three international UC Santa Cruz students without warning or notice. UCSC Chancellor ...

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, established by Silicon Valley luminaries including the tech icons behind Google and Facebook, named UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist Rebecca Jensen-Clem and former ...

David Deamer, emeritus professor of biomolecular engineering (photo by Nick Gonzales) Theodore “Ted” Holman, professor of chemistry and biochemistry (photo by Carolyn Lagattuta) Raphael “Raphe” Kudela ...

Local artist Jim Urban paints a sign on the Barn Theater at the main entrance to UC Santa Cruz. Urban has lovingly designed and meticulously hand-painted hundreds of artful messages about upcoming ...

SANTA CRUZ — Officials announced this week that the Trump administration terminated the F-1 visas issued to three international UC Santa Cruz students without warning or notice. UCSC Chancellor ...

The University of California purchased the Hilltop apartments at 363 Western Drive in Santa Cruz in 2021 to turn a profit, UC Investments staff said. They raised rents, displaced many tenants and ...

Jesse Kathan is a staff reporter for Santa Cruz Local through the California Local News Fellowship. They hold a master's degree in science communications from UC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz Local is a ...