In 2015, a large earthquake struck Nepal, registering 7.8 on the Richter scale. It was so powerful, it shrunk Mt. Everest. I ...

'If local legislators are not willing to come out and protect the community members," says Santa Cruz Anti-Imperialist League member Amelia McDonald, "then the documented community needs to organize ...

Although there are over 7,000 varieties of apples, your grocery store probably offers no more than 15. But you shouldn’t feel deprived. Having 15 alternatives is magnificent. In fact, most of us do ...

No banana slugs slithered out of the rainforests and streams that invaded First Congregational Church on Dec. 3, when pioneering music anthropologist Phil Collins turned up the newest species of ...

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A 27-year-old Santa Cruz man died on Highway 1 early Wednesday morning in a single-vehicle crash. California Highway Patrol officer Israel Murillo said the man, who has not been named, was driving ...

Like many journalists, Dana Priest entered the field deeply imprinted with memories of investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein breaking open the Watergate scandal and bringing down a ...

"In Chinese, eight is a lucky number, so Lucky 8--L8," explains Zhen Wang about the name of the restaurant he owns with his wife, Ying, at 431 Front St. "But people pronounce it 'late.' When we first ...

Going to the circus is one of those bright and memorable moments in a child's life, an event that opens a whole new world of play and imagination to the young mind. But what's in it for the adults? Is ...

The thing that attracts me most to Italy, coming in a close second after art, of course, is the taking of meals. But the seduction begins even before the fork touches the plate, before the menu stirs ...

An Inconvenient Truth is the summer's only indispensable movie, deserving the poring over that The Da Vinci Code got. It's a concert film of a lecture by former Vice President Al Gore on the subject ...