With the 2025 COLA announcement, the average Social Security check for individual retirees will increase from $1,927 per month to $1,976

Pamela Ferreyra, 60, was charged with one count of murder and booked into Monterey County Jail. Ferreyra is accused of dumping the newborn on the side of Garin Road, where he was found later by a random passerby.

“We actually found that these animals are here quite a bit more often than we had realized,” says Will Oestreich, a researcher from MBARI and the lead author of a study published last month in Movement Ecology.

Writers are constantly working, typing away at their next big ideas and also getting them published into the wider world. For Santa Cruz author Vinnie Hansen, October is a particularly busy month, as she will be rereleasing her 2022 suspense novel "One Gun" Tuesday and began the month with the publication of a short story in a crime anthology inspired by The Grateful Dead.

A large school of anchovies swam into and amassed inside the Santa Cruz Harbor. When harbor staff discovered the invasion, they quickly turned on the aerator system to keep the water oxygenated and the anchovies alive, but it was too little, too late.

The wounded man was identified as the founder of the Self Made Training Facility gym chain.

The union's contract expired July 1. In August, the union voted down a contract proposal supported by union leadership.

A reader wonders how to turn his outdoor-loving cat into one content to stay indoors.

Inspired by the Southwest with sweet potato, cumin and chile heat, this hearty, vegetarian-friendly stew relies on protein-rich lentils.

French Polynesia was the destination for this Mountain View couple.