Fire victims’ experiences, and damning grand jury findings, depict a county government unprepared to meet the needs of ...

Today, more than four years after the devastating CZU fires, many Santa Cruz Mountains residents are ... Others who lost their homes in the fire have faced a long and costly slog to stabilize ...

Several northbound lanes of Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz mountains were closed for hours after a big rig caught on fire.

Santa Cruz County supervisors met to discuss potential toxin spread from the Moss Landing battery plant fire, with residents ...

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors received a report by Vistra Energy outlining the response and recovery efforts on ...

A structure on Empire Grade was engulfed in flames on Aug. 20, 2020, as a CZU Lightning Complex fire ravaged Bonny Doon. (Shmuel Thaler — Santa Cruz Sentinel file) “I remember definitely seeing an ...

(KRON) — Three motorcyclists were injured following a crash Sunday afternoon on Highway 9 in Santa Cruz County, Cal Fire CZU announced on X. The crash happened in the area of Shingle Mill Road.

In a shocking public event, a local activist set fire to himself in downtown Santa Cruz, just hours after both the second ...

Map of CZU Fire While it was triggered by heavy rainfall ... which had destroyed almost 1,500 buildings in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties just a year earlier. The flames, which came within ...

The National Weather Service has issued red flag warnings for Pima and Santa Cruz counties through 7 p.m. Saturday.

“I remember definitely seeing an increase in RVs that people were staying in in town for up to two years after the fire,” he said. The CZU fires tore through rural communities in the Santa ...