SANTA CRUZ >> The number of hate groups in the U.S. increased in 2016 for the second consecutive year, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s annual census of hate groups and e… ...

Native Americans have been living in the Santa Cruz County region for at least 12,000 years. ... TAKEN FROM THAT PART OF THEIR CULTURE AND THEIR RELIGION AND FORCED TO WORK IN THE MISSIONS." ...

The sentence comes months after former Santa Cruz County Treasurer Elizabeth Gutfahr pleaded guilty to embezzling $38.7 ...

SANTA CRUZ — Noel Q. King, a Pakistani-born professor emeritus of history and comparative religion at UC Santa Cruz, died Sunday after a battle with stomach cancer. He was 86. King, the husband ...

Former Santa Cruz County Treasurer Elizabeth Gutfahr will soon face sentencing after admitting to stealing nearly $40 million ... citing her religion and alleged honorable life.

Gary Lease-interim dean of humanities at UC Santa Cruz and an internationally recognized expert on the history of religion-has been studying the relationship between politics and religion for more ...