Shortly after the passing of civil rights activist and labor leader Dolores Huerta, reactions across California from elected ...

Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, visited Santa Cruz Main Jail in an unsuccessful attempt to arrest an inmate ...

For many students, a summer internship has meant choosing between gaining valuable career experience and earning a paycheck.

The board that runs financially strapped Watsonville Community Hospital voted Wednesday night to close the hospital’s maternity services, Tania Ortiz reports, and its neonatal intensive care unit. The ...

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Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation's fruit and ...

Nurses, physicians and community members came together Saturday afternoon in defense of Watsonville Community hospital’s mother-baby service lines, which include labor and delivery and neonatal ...

Jesse D. Carr is known as the first person to plant an apple orchard in the Pajaro Valley in 1853. If his fame were no more than that, it would be a sufficient milestone in Santa Cruz history. But ...

Speaker of the Assembly Robert Rivas shares the following remembrance of historic civil rights leaders and lifelong family ...

The Santa Cruz Sentinel's Letters to the Editor for Oct. 17, 2026.

These two members of the Grammy Award-winning band have intertwined their love for music with the Silver and Black.

Longtime union activist and workers' rights fighter Dolores Huerta has died at age 96. She leaves behind a decades-long ...