California showed it was serious about regulating Big Tech in 2025 — and Big Tech showed it was serious about coming to the statehouse and fighting back. The upshot was a barrage of laws designed to ...

While 2025 saw many beloved businesses shutter, the year also welcomed many new ones, from retailers to restaurants, ...

Watsonville resident Christian Gomez will be honored by nonprofit Donor Network West at the 2026 Rose Parade in Pasadena.

Santa Cruz County lost a number of prominent people in 2025, including activists, journalists, artists and academics.

Businesses operating in Santa Cruz County must register with the county clerk. Lookout Santa Cruz reviews the public filings ...

The latest in Santa Cruz County food & drink news, notes, recommendations and more from Lookout correspondent Lily Belli.

Margaret and Roya Ghodsi, a mother-daughter duo from Capitola, are emblematic of a growing number of local residents not active in politics before 2025 who began to participate in protests after ...

Sasha Pavy, a shy 24-year-old UCSC graduate, emerged as an unlikely leader of a successful 2024 unionization drive at three Verve Coffee Roasters cafés, rallying coworkers around higher wages, ...

First-generation students lack the extra help with exams and college applications that rich kids' families can buy. A new program and tax could change that, writes Alondra Martinez, a Stanford ...

Meteorologists weigh in on the extreme winds that whipped through the county last week. They can’t say if winds topping 90 miles per hour winds measured at the small craft harbor are record-setting or ...

A new program and tax could change that, writes Alondra Martinez, a Stanford University senior.

The City of Watsonville has chosen Corey Schaefer, a 27-year fire department veteran, as its next chief, following the ...