With over 8,000 incoming freshmen, the University of California, Riverside (UCR) made history and broke its record in annual college acceptances. The fall 2025 cycle saw 76% first-year students and 57 ...

The effort knock to down Santa Cruz’s iconic Catalyst Club and replace it with an approximately 80-foot-tall mixed-use ...

Residents voiced their concerns in a community meeting for the proposed redevelopment of the Catalyst nightclub in Downtown ...

Attack of the Giant Housing Projects,’ the futuristic monster-horror-psycho-thriller currently playing in and around downtown Santa Cruz to the alarm and dismay of many locals, may ...

A Thursday meeting hosted by representatives from the City of Santa Cruz and the developer and architect of a proposed project that would demolish downtown music venue The Catalyst met with ...

Legislation that extends existing state law on K-12 bathrooms to South Carolina’s 33 public colleges passed the House on Thursday with bipartisan support. The bill largely mimics a law inserted in the ...

Coming up: Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History: Laura Hecox Day on the Santa Cruz Patch calendar ...

Santa Cruz County is bucking national trends, significantly reducing homelessness through sustained investment, coordination and compassion, writes Mer Stafford, the chair of the Coalition to End ...