It’s Saturday afternoon and downtown Santa Cruz is wildly alive. Crosswalks and sidewalks are teeming with folks carrying bags filled with retail goodies. A line spills out of the ice cream shop.

A fire broke out at a family student housing community at UC Santa Cruz on Friday night, displacing three families and ...

SANTA CRUZ — Like students at college campuses across the state and the country, hundreds of UC Santa Cruz students gathered in Quarry Plaza on the university’s campus around noon on May 1 and ...