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A driver who led authorities on a 100-mph chase drove off a cliff and into the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday in a town north of Santa Cruz, California, law enforcement officials said.

An Air Force sergeant already jailed in the ambush killing of a California sheriff’s deputy was charged Tuesday with murdering a federal security officer outside the U.S. courthouse in Oakland during a night of a sometimes violent protest last month.

The Santa Cruz Police Department shared photos on social media platforms Saturday that brought emotions to residents across and outside California’s Bay Area.

Tragedy struck the Santa Cruz area in 2015 when 8-year-old Maddy Middleton was allegedly killed by a teenage boy. Now, her ashes have been stolen.

A surfer was killed in a shark attack off a Santa Cruz beach, state park officials said Saturday.

Santa Cruz County officials have reopened some beaches, parks and trails.

The search for the final victim of a boat fire off the Southern California coast has been suspended until early next week because of gusty winds and rough seas.

When starlight from billions of years ago zips across the universe and finally comes into focus on Earth, astronomers want their telescopes to be in the best locations possible to see what’s out there. Despite years of legal battles and months of protests by Native Hawaiian opponents, the international coalition that wants to build the world’s largest telescope in Hawaii...

Peele knows how to get under your skin and stay there, and it’s what made him the must-see horror filmmaker of the moment.

La policía ha informado que una mujer de 24 años murió la semana pasada después de que la motocicleta tipo scooter en la que viajaba fuera golpeada por un vehículo en el área de Aspen Hill.

The experience of two Native American teenagers pulled from a tour at Colorado State University has highlighted the complications that youth from tribal communities often must navigate in mainstream settings, such as college campuses. Nineteen-year-old Thomas Gray says he and his 17-year-old brother were shocked when they were removed from the tour in Fort Collins on April 30 after a...

Jack O’Neill, a Northern California surfing world icon who pioneered the wetsuit, has died. O’Neill’s died of natural causes Friday at his Santa Cruz, California home, his family said in a statement. He was 94. The eye-patch wearing ocean lover died peacefully, surrounded by family in his oceanfront home of more than 50 years, waves lapping at his deck. He...

A robot zaps and vacuums up venomous lionfish in Bermuda. A helicopter pelts Guam’s trees with poison-baited dead mice to fight the voracious brown tree snake. A special boat with giant winglike nets stuns and catches Asian carp in the U.S. Midwest. In the fight against alien animals that invade and overrun native species, the weird and wired wins. “Critters...

The most famous concrete ship on the West Coast suffered yet another casualty over the weekend as explosive surf, brutal storms and record-setting waves lashed at its core.

Gabriel DeVault flew a drone over the SS Palo Alto on January 21, 2017 as storms ate the stern of “The Cement Ship.”

A host of weather warnings are in effect Sunday as a storm featuring heavy rain and damaging winds batters the Bay Area.

Bay Area residents are hunkering down this weekend as a powerful storm is expected to wallop the region with gusty wind, heavy rain and possible flooding.

A surprising new study finds that mosquito populations have exploded in parts of the United States, but not because of a warming climate. Instead, the study finds, growing cities and the ban on the insecticide DDT may be responsible, NBC News reported. The trend doesn’t bode well for the spread of illness — not just Zika virus, but West Nile...

Researchers with the University of California, Santa Cruz say an elephant seal has set a record by swimming farther west than any other tracked elephant seal.