Santa Cruz Sentinel

California growers are frustrated by an unusually wet spring that has delayed the planting of some crops like rice and damaged others including strawberries and wine grapes.

California fire officials say a stretch of Highway 9 in Santa Cruz remains closed Monday as fire crews battle a blaze that injured a firefighter and is burning through heavy timber.

A man accused of looting homes evacuated due to the Bear Fire has been arrested on suspicion of lighting the same blaze, which ripped through nearly 400 acres of the Santa Cruz Mountains, according to sheriff’s officials.

A man accused of looting a home evacuated due to the Bear Fire has been arrested on suspicion of lighting the same blaze, which ripped through nearly 400 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains, according to sheriff’s officials. Robert Handa reports.

A Silicon Valley nonprofit organization plans to offer homeless people vouchers for clothing, shelter, food and transportation in exchange for cleaning up Santa Cruz streets.

A brain surgeon charged with sexually abusing children sought to impregnate women to create more victims and had been suspected of molesting youngsters for two decades, Northern California prosecutors said Monday.

The third suspect arrested in a Northern California child abuse case involving a brain surgeon and a nurse has been identified as a 29-year-old Arizona nurse.

Federal immigration officials have detained a California prostitute after she completed a jail sentence for involuntary manslaughter in connection with the accidental heroin overdose of a Google executive she was entertaining aboard his yacht.

Anti-police graffiti spelling out “Kill Cops, Not Trees” has been springing up around Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported.

Santa Cruz County sheriff’s deputies identified a body retrieved from Strawberry Beach as Shireen Ahsan, a 19-year-old student who was swept away at sea.

Family members and friends of two University of California, Santa Cruz students swept out to sea this week held an emotional vigil Wednesday.

Family members and friends of two University of California, Santa Cruz students swept out to sea this week held an emotional vigil Wednesday. Robert Handa reports.

The Coast Guard late Tuesday suspended the search for two University of California, Santa Cruz students who were missing after big waves swept them out to sea.

The Coast Guard late Tuesday suspended the search for two University of California, Santa Cruz students who were missing after big waves swept them out to sea. Ian Cull reports.

The Beach Flats Community Garden has been something of a touchstone for Santa Cruz residents for two decades.

At least two men were stabbed Monday night near the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, according to reports from the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Police were still piecing together what happened, and roped off the boardwalk’s arcade, Cocoanut Grove and a portion of Beach Street.

Social media is teeming with pictures of small bright blue sea creatures washing up all over California beaches, with sightings reported in Humboldt County, Monterey and Ocean Beach.