Every Friday, 22-year-old Phoebe Blackman pulls weeds and clears garbage from Santa Cruz’s Evergreen Cemetery, where gold prospectors, Civil War veterans and immigrants lie buried. Though rich in ...

She described how the cemetery was founded and how it got its name from the Freemasons who lived in Santa Cruz in the 19th century. “The Masonic tradition was these long funeral processions ...

Photo from Santa Cruz Fire Department via Facebook One of two swimmers who struggled in the ocean after jumping off a Santa Cruz cliff remains missing, California firefighters reported.

Santa Cruz officials proclaimed the city's first London Nelson Day, celebrating the birthday of the formerly enslaved man who ...