on Saturday is paddled under the Stockton Avenue Bridge during the Lighted Boat Nautical Parade at the third annual Capitola Beach Festival. The festival, which has replaced the Capitola Begonia ...

“Our kids come with their cousins and we usually take our Christmas picture. “I think they think this is how everyone sees Santa — at the beach.” Cherie Beuse, a former Capitola ...

Authorities in Santa Cruz County have launched an investigation after an apparent gas explosion and fire damaged a home on Christmas morning ... not far from Capitola Beach.