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

The CZU inferno destroyed about 700 homes in Santa Cruz County. Of those, 127 residences have been rebuilt and another 134 are under construction, according to the county.

The UCLA economists’ highest estimate — equivalent to more than three times LA County’s annual budget — would rank the wildfire toll second only to Hurricane Katrina, which swept through New ...

The recent devastating fires in Los Angeles are going to make the state’s insurance crisis that much worse for home and property owners in much of California including those some 350 miles away in ...

The atmospheric river storm hitting Northern California brought heavy rain, flooding and mudslides to the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday. In the mountains, the National Weather Service has issued ...

State Farm, the largest insurance company in California, has asked state regulators to immediately approve a steep rate hike ...

Opponents of common-sense guardrails say that any kind of regulation is an irrational over-reaction. Their arguments, that ...

Overwintering populations of monarch butterflies in California have reached a near all-time low since records began, conservationists announced on Thursday. The ...

A winter count of visiting monarch butterflies found a steep drop from previous years, which has scientists worried about the ...

A butterfly sits on a leaf at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove on Nov. 10, 2021. Photo by Nic Coury, AP Photo For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent ...

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