The best time to visit Santa Cruz is from September through November when the summer tourists have returned home, leaving a bit more room on the beaches, walking paths and other attractions.

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.

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(Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel) “What we know is that this Wharf is sound and safe for you to be here, for our ...

Official explanations have varied about why three workers were on a vulnerable stretch of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf when ...

Saturday morning marked the reopening of the wharf in Santa Cruz after parts of it collapsed in a coastal storm days before ...

Former City of Santa Cruz wharf supervisor Jon Bombaci estimates that the ocean took about a third of the portion of wharf ...

It's the holidays, and we have people visiting from out of the area ... to affect the area for the next four or five days. The Santa Cruz Wharf has now been closed to the public.

IN SANTA CRUZ FELIX CORTEZ ACTION NEWS 8 Days after ... that's zero income for businesses at a time when many travelers are visiting the area on Christmas vacation. One traveler from Kansas ...