After more than eight years leading Santa Cruz County through disasters, budget battles and political shifts, CEO Carlos ...

Palacios, 63, announced his retirement on Thursday, but has committed to staying on the job until December, giving the county ...

This past week came the news of two departures, Mike Rotkin from this life and Carlos Palacios at year’s end from his ...

Santa Cruz County supervisors will begin a search for a new top administrator to succeed Carlos Palacios, who is stepping ...

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors announced that County Executive Officer Carlos J. Palacios will step down in ...

One home was heavily damaged and six people were displaced in a two-alarm fire in Brentwood on Thursday afternoon that affected several other structures.

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors announced on June 19 that County Executive Officer Carlos J. Palacios will retire ...

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors announced Thursday that County Executive Officer Carlos Palacios will retire at ...

Santa Cruz County has announced that it reached a tentative agreement on an 11.5% pay increase ... tentative agreement provides a framework to further strengthen a workforce that meets the needs of ...

The scale of the alleged embezzlement takes your breath away: $39 million. That’s the amount that little Santa Cruz County accuses its former county treasurer, Elizabeth Gutfahr, of stealing ...

Santa Cruz County intends to pursue legal action against the state, claiming "gross negligence" by the Arizona auditor general allowed the county's former treasurer to steal public funds for a decade.

The auditor general's investigation looked at certain Santa Cruz County Treasurer’s Office transactions from March 2014 to March 2024. Gutfahr allegedly took $39.4 million over 182 unauthorized ...