Originally named the Hotel Don Rafael Castro, in honor of the grantee of Rancho Aptos, it was renamed several times: Rio Del Mar Country Club Inn (1931), Rio Del Mar Hotel (1946), Aptos Beach Inn ...

APTOS — A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon. But then the fossil vanished, and it took ...

APTOS — A pair of dunes will be on full display this week in Aptos. But don’t get too excited science fiction fans, the happening doesn’t include Timothée Chalamet riding a sand worm to Santa Cruz.

APTOS, Calif. (KRON) — A junior lifeguard summer program aide had a very close encounter with a great white shark Tuesday morning at Rio Del Mar Beach in Aptos. Just before 11 a.m., a group of Santa ...

HERE'S ACTION NEWS EIGHT REPORTER CHRISTIAN BALDERAS.### THIS FOOT LONG MASTODON TOOTH WAS FOUND ON RIO DEL MAR BEACH NEAR APTOS CREEK OVER MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. <I FOUND IT OVER THERE AND SHE SAID ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) — A plan to place a sexually violent predator in an Aptos beach house fell apart this week. Convicted rapist Michael Thomas Cheek was slated to be released from a state ...

APTOS, Calif. -- A great white shark was spotted swimming dangerously close to the shore in Northern California. The shark was captured on drone video swimming feet away from Hidden Beach in Aptos.

Hidden Beach County Park in Aptos, Santa Cruz County, celebrated its grand opening today, introducing new amenities designed to enhance accessibility for all visitors."What is different now is we've ...

APTOS, Calif. (AP) - A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon. But then the fossil vanished ...