Nationally recognized urban designer and consultant Robert Gibbs worked closely on downtown Santa Cruz a decade ago. We asked him about some of the issues facing downtown today.

Santa Cruz on Thursday enacted a city voter approved 2 cents per ounce tax on non-alcoholic beverages such as soda, coffees, ...

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Santa Cruz enacts a new soda tax, defying a 2018 statewide ban. The tax, effective Thursday, charges 2 cents per ounce on ...

Experts have long called for better ways to treat snakebites, which kill some 200 people a day, mainly in the developing ...

Santa Cruz’s 2-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary beverages officially went into effect Thursday, making it the first city in ...

A voter-approved tax on sugary drinks has taken effect in the beachside community of Santa Cruz on the California coast.

Santa Cruz's tax on sugary beverages went into effect Thursday, seven years after a California bill banned local governments ...

It’s about democracy and and standing up to special interests,” said Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson, vice mayor of the Santa Cruz ...

Santa Cruz is set to begin collecting a new tax on sugary drinks starting Thursday, marking the first such levy in California ...