City planners have decided that a roundabout is the next best step to easing traffic at a busy all-way stop in Capitola.

For the past two decades, local artists have participated in Santa Cruz’s First Friday every month. Now, creative types in the Pajaro Valley are gearing up to start their own tradition: a Second ...

Some things feel so serendipitous it’s hard not to believe there’s some purpose in everything coming together at the right place, in the right time, with the right people. That’s certainly the case ...

Let’s get the toasts in place up front. First, to the purveyors—the 30 craft brewers, the 10 cider makers, the exponential VW enthusiasts displaying their rides, the bands banging it out on stage and ...

ARIES March 21-April 19 In the days before lighthouses, some coastal communities used “fire beacons”—elevated structures where people tended open flames to guide sailors. In the coming weeks, Aries, I ...