Mayor Fred Keeley is the first four-year mayor of the city of. In the spirit of collaboration, Mayor Keeley will be sharing the monthly Mayor’s Message column with the ...

A House Judiciary subcommittee met Thursday to discuss fires in California and whether the state’s forest and land management ...

Santa Cruz Fire probationary firefighter paramedic Brian Scheckl, left, and firefighter Nathan Rodger head down from the roof ...

We need these facilities,” said Assemblywoman Dawn Addis, a Democrat from Morro Bay, where voters in November rejected an ...

To me, that’s the biggest threat — the wind,” a National Weather Service meteorologist told the Sentinel. “This is when ...

The preliminary results suggest that emissions from the lithium battery fire impacted surface soil in and around Site 8, ...

Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire proposed Tuesday that state firefighters work year-round in place of the seasonal ...

Thairie Ritchie, a well-known Santa Cruz community organizer, reportedly self-immolated Jan. 20 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day ...

Fortunately no one was hurt,” said Board Chair Felipe Hernandez. “But this event has left a lot of questions in the minds of ...

Just a month after she bought her red-doored dream home, Ana Wold’s little gray Boulder Creek house burned to the ground in the 2020 Santa Cruz Mountains firestorm. Now she’s walking away from a ...

On Jan. 16, a large smoke plume rose above Moss Landing power plant and Elkhorn Slough. The lithium-ion battery array at ...