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In the fight against human sex trafficking, Loreal Weitzel not only talks the talk, she walks the walk, and she and her team from Arukah Project will be on their feet this Saturday at Skypark in Scotts Valley for the third annual Natasha’s Run...

A 37-year-old San Lorenzo Valley man who was already facing felony rape and violent false imprisonment charges has been accused of additional offenses prosecutors say he committed earlier this month. But for several days in a row, the defendant, Michael Richard Kelly, who’s back in...

Registration opens Monday for free school field trip program Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks (Friends) announced that online registration for Kids2Parks, an innovative park-equity program to bring students from Title 1 schools to state parks, will open Monday, July 31, at thatsmypark.org/k2p. Kids2Parks, a partnership...

The fallen branches have been neatly arranged along a rock border next to the La Placa Family Bakery parking lot as the sun streams down through the redwoods to the red translucent awning, but here along Highway 9 in Ben Lomond, the storms are...

Local students from Tara Redwood School playing in the Santa Cruz Mountains last spring found a strange object that they suspected was a bone from a large animal. This bone was brought to the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, where its Paleontology Collections Adviser...

As one father took to the microphone, at the May 3 San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District board meeting, to voice his dismay over the District’s plan to fly Pride Flags from its flag poles in support of the LGBTQ+ community the following week,...

SLV Museum presents ‘Side Track’ exhibition in Felton Opening on June 20 at the San Lorenzo Valley Museum’s Faye G. Belardi Memorial Gallery in Felton will be the exhibition “Side Track” featuring work by artist Jim Potterton. In fall 2024, Potterton’s work was featured on the...

Pro-Palestinian activists assembled outside the secretive Lockheed Martin compound in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Nov. 10, the day after a similar demonstration had blocked the entrance to the University of California Santa Cruz campus. The contingent was much smaller than the massive mobilizations in support...

The minor sex assault case for a former San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District assistant principal and administrator—who signed up as an event volunteer at a Santa Cruz school in December—is back on. Ned Hearn’s trial, relating to his time as a teacher and swim...

First responders raced along Pacific Coast Highway, Dec. 14 around 6pm, as flames shot above a car sitting motionless at an oceanside turnout north of Scott Creek in Swanton. When firefighters and the California Highway Patrol arrived, they found a dead body inside the four-door...