KAZU'S SELLING OUT. With no warning to the listeners, the on-air people or anybody else, the California State University at Monterey Bay, with full cooperation of the station manager, stopped all ...

It has been nearly five decades since Country Fair Cinnamon Rolls began selling their iconic pastries at the Santa Cruz County Fair. The stand has become a cornerstone of the fair’s multifarious food ...

Under the headline “The Strange Journey of La Bahia,” Good Times reported the Santa Cruz City Council had already approved the then-125-room hotel project two years prior, but a long road to ...

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Earlier this year, President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to withhold federal funding from local governments that did not cooperate with his mass deportation agenda. The governments, along ...

BIGGER APPLE The 1858 Imperial brings an 8% ABV, a jump in voltage over the 5.7% of its Mango, Berry Blush and classic 1858 siblings. PHOTO: Haylee Maxwell Martinelli’s is ready to party like ...

At a time when the powers that be think it’s a good thing to sell public spaces to oil companies, we’d better cherish what we have in the way of beautiful nature preserves. And here’s our newest, the ...

There’s shopping local—and then there’s going right to the roots. When your dollars go straight to the makers, you’re not just supporting the community—you’re fueling it. As I gear up for the Santa ...

Austin Curtis was a prominent Black scientist whose work had spectacularly practical applications. Among his successes: He developed many new uses for peanut byproducts, including rubbing oils for ...

SOUTH COUNTY DINING has even more to offer than we'd realized, Katya and I both agreed as we joined a full house at Green Valley Grill last week. Here, on the second floor of what looks like an office ...

Greatest hits, best-of albums, whatever you call them, are a huge no-no according to the punk rawk bible, verse S. Vicious: 69--but the legendary and now-defunct local melodic hard-core boys Fury 66 ...