The Santa Cruz Fire Department was called around 4:45 p.m. after witnesses said two swimmers had jumped off the cliff and were struggling to return to shore.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — UC Santa Cruz students rallied against a proposed rent increase for student family housing, which they argue would impose a significant financial burden on student families.

“The Creatives Among Us” gets underway with an opening reception 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Pajaro Valley Arts Porter Building, 280 Main St., Watsonville. The exhibit runs through May … ...

The No on Z campaign mailed at least nine fliers to Santa Cruz voters as of Oct. 18, sent at least five people door to door and blanketed social media and TV with advertisements. (No on Z campaign) ...

Students in a Banana Slug costume with Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer, on the East Field. (Photo courtesy of UC Santa Cruz Special Collections) Fittingly, Sammy gets lots of attention. The iconic mascot ...

The complaint, filed in Santa Cruz County Superior Court on Monday, says that more than 110 students and faculty were banned from campus for up to 14 days after being arrested at a pro-Palestinian ...

Union leaders at the Santa Cruz campus said the strike would disrupt classes, research, and possibly grading in the final weeks of the school year, and could soon spread to other UC campuses.

As the 48,000-member UC academic workers union announced a Monday strike at UC Santa Cruz over alleged free speech violations during pro-Palestinian protests, the University of California on ...

How it'll work: Union leaders have called on workers at UC Santa Cruz to form a picket line, stop all teaching, and “wind down” their research. The union’s president also told workers at ...

The UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group was formed in 1975 to do that work in the West. Members of the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group: three unidentified scientists, biologist ...