SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — In 2020, the CZU Lightning Complex fires burned through over 86,000 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Tonje Switzer (right) received the Green Heart award in October, an honor named for Mountain Community Resources’ late founder, Mary Hammer. UC Santa Cruz alumna and Executive Director of the Santa ...

SANTA CRUZ — In the waning hours of 2025, Santa Cruz firefighters were busy battling a large structure fire that appeared to originate from a woodworking shop in an industrial building in Westside ...

SANTA CRUZ — One man was injured after falling an 80-foot height from a redwood tree outside UC Santa Cruz while another man was rescued from the same tree Saturday evening. Cecile Juliette, a ...