Community Voices editor Jody K. Biehl reflects on her three years editing columns by Mike Rotkin and the education he offered her about Santa Cruz County, UCSC and being human.

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

When the news broke that Mike Rotkin died Wednesday at his home in Santa Cruz, the outpouring of tributes from grieving ...

Former Santa Cruz mayor and longtime city leader Mike Rotkin died at his home on Wednesday. He was 79.

Mike Rotkin arrived in Santa Cruz in 1969, not long after the University of California, and soon not only became a pillar of ...

Edited and adapted from the book “Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson” by Mark Kriegel. Copyright © 2025 by Mark Kriegel. From Penguin Press, an imprint of ...

Fox News Senior Correspondent Mike Tobin has completed one of the riskiest feats in the world: climbing Mount Everest. Along with a team, Tobin hiked the mountain in the Himalayas, reaching the ...

The White Lotus creator Mike White is heading back to the island. And we don't mean Thailand or Hawai'i to start work on The White Lotus season 4. After writing and directing three hit seasons of ...

New York Rangers President and General Manager Chris Drury announced today that the team has named Mike Sullivan the 38th Head Coach in franchise history. “Mike Sullivan has established himself ...

“There are plaques with Barry Swenson’s name on them all the way up and down Pacific Avenue and side streets,” said Mike Rotkin, the mayor of Santa Cruz in the years after the earthquake.

Boulder dancer Joanna Rotkin began teaching free improvisational-dance classes for adults in 2003, inviting people with little or no experience to experiment with their bodies. Years later ...