Barry Swenson Builder's Jesse Nickell has been making the rounds of meetings in Capitola Village, trying to build consensus for a new hotel planned for the theater site near the beach and Esplanade. The vice president of Barry Swenson Builder met with the Chamber of Commerce, village merchants and residents, and the city's transportation subcommittee, all in an effort to come up with a plan that will have already been vetted by the community by the time it's formally...

Jeff Maxell will take over as chief of the Central Fire Protection District with a badge-pinning ceremony Mar. 22 and will start work the next day, replacing retiring Chief Bruce Clark...

Last August, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors agreed to solicit designs to replace two grass soccer fields at Anna Jean Cummings Park in Soquel with artificial turf. The county's...

by Linda Fridy When it comes to making honey or pollinating crops, bees are not the only ones who are busy. The beekeepers who move them from orchard to field, help them battle...