Hank Risan allegedly used more than $3.1million in fraudulently obtained funds to pay personal credit cards, purchase collectables, and make mortgage payments on his personal residence.

The last 150 feet of the wharf collapsed into the Monterey Bay at around 12:45pm, city officials said. The city had already determined that the end of the wharf needed to be taken down and repaired after it was damaged in storms over the past several years.

Mayor of Santa Cruz comments on the push to bolster housing production in California’s coastal communities.

Unsettled weather is expected to continue as a series of storms aim at the California Coast. The next more significant storm may impact the region in the middle of next week.

A tiny home project building bicycle-locker-sized enclosures in Santa Cruz morphed into Simply Shelter and expanded to San Jose.

Elections-related bills signed into law will allow disabled voters to vote curbside, permit mail-in ballots to be processed like in-person votes and treat double-voting as a misdemeanor, among other changes. 

In his initial climate budget proposal, the governor has cut about $561 million from local coastal resilience projects. Legislators, cities express concerns.

Highway 17 was closed in both directions early this mornng because of snow and fallen trees.

Apple is working with affordable housing organizations to build new homes and provide housing stability for individuals and families in communities across California.

Criminal charges were announced against a man and a woman in Santa Cruz County and three other Californians, as well as owners and executives of medical businesses, physicians and manufacturers of fake COVID-19 vaccination record cards with losses greater than $149 million.

The three new congressional districts for the San Jose metro area include the first majority Latino district, and another that is the first predominantly Asian district.

Big Basin Redwoods will undergo a transformation and be back after a massive rebuilding project. But what will it look like?

Treat has been a San Jose favorite since 1951, with a manufacturing facility in San Jose’s Naglee Park. But on April 15, that facility will close.

As wildfire and mudslide threats prompt mountain residents to flee, Silicon Valley’s remote workers are eager to take their place.

Taube Pavilion is a newly opened $98 million mental health facility that is chipping away at outdated institutional models.

In an attempt to prevent wildfires, the utility company is removing vegetation from around power lines.