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Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors recently approved a plan aimed at improving emergency response planning and communication in the Loma Prieta area of the Santa Cruz Mountains, a community that straddles the Santa Cruz and Santa Clara County lines. Earlier, in November, Supervisor Joe...

Santa Cruz County has launched the new MySCCounty+ app, incorporating all the functionality of the MySCcounty app but providing residents a digital platform to purchase and store digital permits and other County services. Available on the App Store and Google Play, MySCCounty+ still allows residents...

Firefighters put out a midday garage fire at the Hidden Oaks condominium complex in Scotts Valley in under an hour Monday. Acting Battalion Chief Garrett Grieg, of the Scotts Valley Fire Protection District, said the blaze was primarily contained to a single parking unit just...

Scotts Valley hosted a virtual public workshop May 30 to discuss the draft Housing Element that was released May 19, but the meeting yielded few comments and was cut off after less than an hour—before all comments could be aired verbally. The all-important residential development...

Scotts Valley Planning Commission has voted to recommend the city’s Draft Housing Element to the Scotts Valley City Council for approval. No members of the public spoke during the public comment period, and commissioners engaged in no discussion of the critical planning document before it...

The Blue Ridge Tank Replacement Project is complete, tripling the water storage available north of Boulder Creek, announced San Lorenzo Valley Water District. The project’s completion marks four months of work to replace an aging redwood water tank. The new tank, constructed of bolted steel, stands...

Jorge Ibarra was a couple days away from his 45th birthday when he left the tent where he lives above the San Lorenzo River to go skateboarding. The decision may have saved his life—just a short while later, a giant tree snapped and collapsed...

A slate of bands brought hardcore and punk energy to the Saloon Room at the storied Brookdale Lodge last Friday. Despite the growling vocals, thrashing sonics and aggressively swirling bodies in the circle pit, the Aug. 11 event—featuring Mondo Chaga, Curb Creeps, Bastard Machine and...

Scotts Valley City Council during its Feb. 16 meeting voted unanimously to skip collecting fees for a pair of upcoming fundraisers, including an event where firefighters will compete against each other to support people who have suffered burns. Speaking as a dispatch radio sang intermittently...

Just weeks before the civil child sex abuse trial was set to begin, it was canceled. Ned Hearn, the former SLVUSD teacher and administrator who faces a lawsuit by a student swimmer he coached in the ’90s in Dixon, Calif.—who says they had a sexual...