A year after purchasing Watsonville’s Fox Theater, business owner Franco Vaca says there’s no telling when the theater will reopen to the public.

After years of balancing family in Southern California and public service in Santa Cruz, Zach Friend steps into an undefined future.

Mark Sponsler has gained cult status among big-wave surfers thanks to his ability to time a wave down to the minute and predict its height to within inches. The retired engineer’s website, Stormsurf, ...

Local businessperson and mom Brooke Secor responds to a recent Lookout op-ed by Tom Decker, a Republican who has strong ideas about why Donald Trump won in November. She believes it's not about the ...

Mark Sponsler has gained cult status among big-wave surfers thanks to his ability to time a wave down to the minute and predict its height to within inches. The retired engineer’s website, Stormsurf, ...

A pre-dawn explosion and fire struck Capitola Village near the Esplanade on Christmas morning. Police and firefighters said no one was injured in the blaze.

Santa Cruz city officials said Tuesday that there is no estimated reopening date for the wharf, which was undergoing repairs ...

From her home near Sacramento, Ruby Shields was frantically trying to recover her mother's memorial bench, part of the end of ...

A section of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed Monday, plunging three construction workers into 25-foot swells. At least nine ...

Lookout photojournalist Kevin Painchaud captured the aftermath of Monday's huge swells, which caused a portion of the Santa ...

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