Police announced the arrest of men in their 40s in connection with the Feb. 1 killing on Winchester Boulevard.

PISMO BEACH — Whether or not Santa Cruz’s John Mel, 26, advances from the World Surf League’s Qualifying Series (QS) to the Challenger Series (CS) is going to come down to the 2025-26 season finale.

If it wasn't for theater, there's a good chance you would not be reading this. There's not a direct line from my love for plays and musicals to my 30-plus-year career in newspapers, more a meandering ...

John Richard Bakalian passed away peacefully in his home in Tucson, AZ on December 12, 2025. He had spent the weekend before surrounded by love from his wife, all his children and grandchildren, his ...

John William Franks, Sr. 92, passed away on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, at his home in Dacula, Georgia. He is survived by his wife of 71 years, Mary Low Franks, his four children, M. Katherine ...

FELTON — Although based in Georgia, folk singer and multi-instrumentalist John McCutcheon is no stranger to the Santa Cruz area. For decades, like clockwork, he could be seen every January at the ...

SANTA CRUZ — California Senate leadership has appointed Sen. John Laird chair of the influential Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee for the remainder of the 2025-26 legislative session, ...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., agreed on the condemnation of antisemitism in a rare moment of shared ideology and praise during an interview Tuesday on "Hannity." "I just want ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz both voted against extending tax credits for the Affordable Care Act. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Gage Skidmore Both of Texas’ U.S. senators, John Cornyn and Ted ...

Santa Cruz’s John Mel, 26, did a backflip off of his Channel Islands OG Flyer surfboard into the shallow water as he returned to the beach a champion at Morro Bay on Sunday. He picked up his board ...

Santa Cruz’s John Mel advanced to the Round of 32 at the World Surf League’s SLO CAL Open Morro Bay, a Qualifying Series 2,000-point event, in Morro Bay on Friday. Santa Cruz's Keanna Miller competes ...

Wilmington recently marked the 127th anniversary of the 1898 coup and massacre. The event, considered the only successful coup on U.S. soil, involved armed Whites killing dozens of Black residents and ...