Santa Cruz Weekly is a free weekly newspaper serving Santa Cruz County and Monterey Bay. A property of San Jose, California-based Metro Newspapers, it distributes 25,000 copies at hundreds of locations throughout Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, including business districts, tourist attractions and the University of California–Santa Cruz.

Founded as Metro Santa Cruz in 1994 and renamed in 2008, Santa Cruz Weekly brings a unique voice to the region’s cultural, political and entertainment scene, providing comprehensive weekly listings, news reporting and arts criticism. The paper has won numerous state and national awards for excellence in such categories as investigative journalism, news, music coverage, food writing, film criticism and design.

The newspaper is owned by its co-founder and CEO Dan Pulcrano, and is one of the few remaining owner-operated publications in the alternative press.