The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) on Thursday approved a plan to develop an interim bicycle and ...

Headlines to know from around Santa Cruz County politics & policy, plus a look at what's on local agendas this week and ...

The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission voted to stop work on the passenger rail line, moving forward with ...

Miles of the planned rail trail were funded by the California Transportation Commission. But it's now facing a multi-million ...

As part of a major reversal of longstanding planning efforts, the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission ...

Santa Cruz County’s so-called rail-trail “peace deal” promises 20 years of trail use, but it’s built on shaky legal ground, writes retired software engineer. Federal freight rights — not local ...

The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission approves a compromise that could help settle the rail trail debate.

As if this page has not been taken over by rail proponents and opponents for years, writing dueling op-eds, torrents of Letters to the Editor and numerous broadsides accusing one another side of ...

By Peter Gibson The Branch Rail Line has become the center of a battle between people who want to preserve rail and those who want trail‑only development. The so‑called “peace deal” ...

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Two years prior to the Donner Party’s disastrous attempt, the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy wagon train successfully arrived in California—with two more people than it started with—and its members helped ...