California is a magnet for travelers looking to experience natural beauty and laid-back fun, but this overlooked town ...

Aptos, California (Getty Images / File Photo) Cheek, 72, is originally from Concord. He attacked and raped a 21-year-old-woman on Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz in 1980.

Smith holds the ancient mastodon molar tooth he discovered at a beach in Rio Del Mar on Tuesday and the two stand in front of the juvenile mastodon skull also found in Aptos in 1980. (Contributed ...

About the Aptos Beach Drive walkway land grab by the HOA, I pose an alternate solution. I am 70 and walk along that stretch of the beach regularly. Since the erection of the fences blocking access … ...

Kim Lowe and Kate Minott walk along the beach access walkway in front of vacation rentals on the ocean side of Aptos Beach Drive for the first time on Tuesday. December 18, 2018.

APTOS — A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon.

Kim Lowe and Kate Minott walk along the beach access walkway in front of vacation rentals on the ocean side of Aptos Beach Drive for the first time on Tuesday. December 18, 2018.

An Aptos beach home with an interior design pedigree is the biggest deal so far this year in Santa Cruz County. The four-bedroom, three-bath house sold for $9.8 million, or more than $4,1000 per ...

The tooth is the second confirmed mastodon fossil that's been found in Santa Cruz County; the first is a 120-pound, juvenile mastodon skull that was also found at Aptos Creek in 1980.

A 68-year-old woman died after crashing down an embankment onto Seacliff State Beach in Aptos, California Highway Patrol officers told news outlets.

APTOS, Calif. (KGO) -- A great white shark was spotted swimming dangerously close to the shore in Aptos. The shark was captured on drone video swimming feet away from Hidden Beach.