Local News

A 34-year-old man was killed, and his passenger seriously hurt, after the truck he was driving struck a tree and flipped over just after 5pm yesterday, north of Boulder Creek, authorities said. The driver, Steven Taggart, 34, was headed towards town on Highway 9, south...

For the past three months, CZU survivors that were ineligible for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rental assistance have been able to stay at hotels throughout the county with daily provided meals. As of Nov. 30, 41 individuals were still utilizing the County’s program....

After a significant portion of the Bonny Doon community mobilized to try to keep a man who raped a 21-year-old woman in the 1980s from moving to town, Santa Cruz County is now seeking changes to California law, so it can have additional tools...

It scrounged-up curtains from Broadway. It sourced seating that originally came from the Bellagio in Las Vegas. And now, the Scotts Valley Community Theater Guild is nearing completion of a performing arts center at the site of the old roller rink. It’s taken about $80,000...

The small outdoor pool at Siltanen Park will remain closed throughout the summer as renovations continue. Upgrades have been in the works for months, but when crews got to the site, they discovered things were worse than City staff had realized. Santa Cruz County’s Environmental Health...

The Felton Branch Library reopened some of its indoor services Tuesday. “I really enjoy being able to browse,” said 71-year-old Waldo Burford, a retired biology teacher who took in Devi Pride’s post-fire rebirth photoset outside the library on May 8. “That sense of the library...

The stars were out in Felton on May 6 as the Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce held its Community Awards Gala at Roaring Camp’s Brett Harte Hall. Overall, Chamber Executive Director Danny Reber said he couldn’t be more excited about the event, which featured 230...

An 85-year-old woman from Boulder Creek plowed into four bicyclists Tuesday on Highway 9 in the San Lorenzo Valley. Israel Murillo of the California Highway Patrol said CHP responded to a report of a crash at 6:21pm, south of Glengarry Road.  The woman was driving a...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—After nearly three decades running the county’s elections department, Santa Cruz County Clerk Gail Pellerin will retire at the end of the year. Pellerin made the announcement Thursday, a little more than a week after what many are calling the most significant election...

A woman suspected of committing at least one arson, and possibly as many as five others, was arrested Feb. 28, Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Ashley Keehn announced. Tanya Posey, 39, was charged with felony arson. She was booked into Santa Cruz County Jail...