NAACP Santa Cruz County President Elaine Johnson, left on stage at the Rio Theatre Wednesday night, moderates a discussion ...

The NCAA changed its participation policy for transgender athletes on Thursday, limiting competition in women’s sports to athletes assigned female at birth only.

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Many gardens include at least one rose and perhaps several. Roses are dormant from late winter to early spring (when buds ...

Hostages are returning after 15 months in captivity as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, and with their ...

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” – Abraham Kaplan, American philosopher. Kaplan’s formulation was reworded to the more ...

President Donald Trump, who said he wanted to end Middle East wars, is stumbling toward a dangerous new entanglement with his talk of expelling Palestinians from Gaza and seizing the territory for ...

The storm left trees and roads in several mid-Atlantic states coated in ice before warmer temperatures moved in.

American evangelical Christian Zionists are among Israel’s strongest supporters – and they wield considerable influence.

By Bob Montague In the opinion of a recent writer (Guest Commentary, Jan. 22, “Local Democrats: Reflecting, learning and moving forward together” ) the local Democratic Party needs to reshape its ...

During the cross-examination of rapist and murderer Adrian Gonzalez this week, prosecutor Tara George broke the events of the murder down to a granular level and brought in items so that Gonzalez ...

SEATTLE (AP) — It’s one thing to fix your home after something basic has gone wrong, but it’s a different beast to rebuild ...