As people were preparing to begin their days at the break of dawn Thursday, more than 130 volunteers fanned throughout Santa Cruz County on a 40-degree overcast morning with a simple goal: count ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY IS SEEING AN EXPANSION OF HOMELESS SERVICES . TWO NEW PROGRAMS ARE NOW AVAILABLE. THE ASSOCIATION OF FAITH COMMUNITIES IS LAUNCHING PROGRAMS IN WATSONVILLE. ONE WILL OFFER SECURE ...

Four years later, only about a third of those residences were being rebuilt, according to a 2024 Santa Cruz County Civil ...

A Scotts Valley mother charged with her toddler daughter's murder after she allegedly died of a drug overdose- possibly ...

An ordinance sponsored by two City Council members would make transporting and abandoning a homeless person in the city of ...

Fresno is considering another tool to limit the homeless population — stopping other government agencies from sending theirs ...

Santa Cruz County's annual homelessness count revealed a dramatic shift, with one group of volunteers spotting only three people along a stretch of the Pajaro River levee in Watsonville after most ...

Good morning! It’s Jan. 31 — here’s what’s going on in your community today… A morning shower, then rain in Watsonville / Pajaro Today will be mostly cloudy and cool; a shower in spots this morning ...

A search for compassionate, sustainable solutions takes researchers to Bay Area streams to investigate the intersections of ...

In Fairfield, on the northeast edge of California's Bay Area, there is a spot where the land drops below a gravel parking lot ...