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The Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League boys cross country championships have traditionally produced epic finishes. This year’s meet on March 26 was no different. Scotts Valley High junior Jeremy Kain and Aptos High senior Ben Laughlin made last week’s race another one to remember as they...

Over the past year, the financial world has been playing the big guessing game of what will happen to interest rates as authorities seek to calm inflation without causing too much pain. School officials had been zoned-in for just such an exercise here in...

It’s happening a few months later than originally hoped, but now, literacy fans and community boosters can rejoice—the Scotts Valley Branch Library is coming back to life. The Grand Reopening is to go from 10am-2pm on Saturday, at its previous 251 Kings Village Road location....

SANTA CRUZ—The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District (METRO) on Friday announced it has named Michael Tree its new CEO/General Manager. Tree has nearly three decades of experience in the public transit industry and city management, most recently as Executive Director of the Livermore Amador Valley...

When former mayor Derek Timm announced that Scotts Valley would be giving out cash to needy local businesses during his State of the City address at the beginning of October, it was welcome news for business owners who have faced seemingly endless trials during...

At the same time county officials were preparing to announce whether or not the trail-only ballot initiative made it across the certification finish line Monday, the camps for and against were busy submitting their legally-required financial documents. Greenway indeed secured the needed signatures for their...

Last Christmas, the Ziniak family left their home in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, and headed on a fun trip across the Carpathian Mountains. When the Russian invasion of their country began in February, Vasyl stayed behind while his wife fled to Poland—and then to the San Lorenzo...

A severely underweight horse (Serif), a wild alpine weanling (Jamaal) and an abused mustang (Willow) have been taken into the care of Canham Farm Horse Rescue, a nonprofit horse rescue and rehabilitation center in Scotts Valley that is asking for financial donations and volunteers...

The names of the two men whose bodies were found in a pickup truck in the Santa Cruz Mountains last month were released Tuesday by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner’s Office. The identities of the victims, previously identified by family members, are Colter White,...

San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District trustees were wowed by the passionate and studied presentation by a student who was trying to persuade them to support an on-campus agricultural program. Lexi Lemus had originally shown up to speak during a public comment period of the...