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

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 ...

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.

A new wildfire was reported today at 10:38 a.m. in Santa Cruz County. The wildfire has been burning on private land.

First discovered: 5:33 p.m. Jan. 25 A new wildfire was reported today at 5:33 p.m. in Santa Cruz County. Bear Fire has been burning on private land. At this time, the containment status is unknown and ...

Experts say homeowners in fire-prone areas are increasingly carrying policies that may not cover the full cost of rebuilding.

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 ...

A quilting group in the Santa Cruz Mountains is pitching in to support ... "The group began meeting last summer, and some members are victims of the CZU wildfire.The quilts can take several ...

“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 ...