At the Rancho Del Mar shopping center in Aptos, many of the long-standing small businesses are fretting over a provisional reconstruction and expansion of the center's biggest resident: Safeway. The plan would about double the size of the current Safeway and demolish nearly half of the other businesses in the decade's old shopping complex. In February, Safeway purchased the 50-year-old property from its longtime owners, the Fenton family. Many of the business owners...

Agenda 21, a 20-year-old set of sustainable growth guidelines created by the United Nations, has emerged in the current county supervisor race as a prominent issue for two candidates...

Capitola Mayor Mike Termini said that California officials helped city leaders make the decision to keep the city's long-held six-acre Rispin property on Wharf Road in late April. The...

Just before noon on the morning of May 7, a homelass man brutally killed a populat downtown Santa Cruz shop owner. The two had never met before and the killing is said to be completely...