Visiting Southern California’s archipelago takes planning and an adventurous spirit, but it’s worth the effort.

Palm Beach-based real estate developer Ashton DePeyster, who has owned the Causeway Cove Marina property since ... from being built on South Hutchinson Island. FORT PIERCE — A former mayor ...

The western Santa Cruz giant tortoise is a subspecies of Galapagos tortoise, and they are critically endangered. They are one of the larger subspecies of Galapagos tortoises — males can grow up ...

The Galapagos Island tortoises are famous throughout the world. These giants from a bygone age are unique and found nowhere else on Earth. The western Santa Cruz giant tortoise is a subspecies of ...

A Jan. 16 battery fire in Moss Landing has prompted health and environmental concerns. (Nik Altenberg — Santa Cruz Local file) MOSS LANDING >> This week, scientists collected another round of soil ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- A driver suffered major injuries after she rear-ended a school bus and crashed into a tree Monday morning on Highway 17 in Santa Cruz County, according to the ...

It’s a prospect students and their families say they face at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I'm 49 years old and have nothing saved for retirement — what should I do? Don't panic.

The single outlier, the Channel Islands leafcutter bee, is a species of special concern. However, since it lives at the university’s Santa Cruz Island Reserve, you might say it’s still found at UCSB.

SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County authorities have identified the body that washed up on Its Beach last week and confirmed it is the same individual that went missing after cliff jumping in the ...

A group of schoolchildren and several adults are safe after their bus caught fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains Friday morning. According to the Santa Clara County Fire Department, the bus had ...