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

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

We cannot accept facilities in our neighborhoods that pose a risk of repeated catastrophic incidents,” County Board of ...

President Trump has called on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to "release the water." and claimed FEMA lacked the funds to ...

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

A quilting group in the Santa Cruz Mountains is pitching in to ... They are donating these handmade blankets to victims of the wildfires in Southern California."We actually have donated quilts ...

The Pacific Coast Highway is back open in Malibu, California, nearly a month after the deadly Palisades Fire ripped through ...

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

When a massive fire erupted at one of the world's largest lithium-ion battery storage facilities in Monterey County, it ...

After last week's fire at the Moss Landing battery plant forced evacuations and caused health and environmental concerns, calls for accountability have increased. The Santa Cruz County Board of ...

CalMatters reports on the alarming issue of home development in highly flammable areas in the state of California.

It’s getting tougher for Californians to get and keep fire insurance, writes Lookout politics columnist Mike Rotkin, and it’s not just people living in fire-prone, forested areas like Bonny Doon and ...