From the scarecrow-like silhouettes of Joshua Tree National Park to the fog-shrouded Redwood Coast of Mendocino and Humboldt ...

Crude oil pumped from the depths of the Pacific Ocean is flowing for the first time in more than a decade through a pipeline ...

UC Santa Cruz Library has digitized and made publicly available 3,200 images taken by Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones from ...

An anthropology project traces the history of land use and fire in the county, revealing lessons for future management and ...

A Monterey County woman’s death in late December marked the 17th shark fatality off California’s coast since 1950.

"While the 1906 epicenter was just offshore of San Francisco, the rupture was very long, extending 200 miles north to Cape Mendocino and 60 miles south to Santa Cruz. This entire fault rupture was the ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom declined to endorse a candidate in the state’s crowded gubernatorial race, offering broad praise instead. His caution appears aimed at avoiding intra-party rifts ahead of ...

Heavy rain and warm weather in Santa Cruz County are causing mold, fruit splitting, and accelerated growth in strawberry ...

The preserve’s serpentine grasslands are also one of the few places where the federally threatened Bay checkerspot butterfly ...

Despite the excessive rain and snow that California received in April, drought has crept back into the state, new data show.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mapped water ice across vast regions of the galaxy, confirming that an essential molecule for life on Earth ...