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A Boulder Creek home surveillance video and a sharp-eyed Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputy combined Tuesday to end nearly 40 anxious hours in the San Lorenzo Valley, with the arrest of a 22-year-old Santa Cruz man and an 18-year-old female companion.

A Caltrans worker explained last week why the rocks, mud and trees from the latest landslides that closed Highway 9 south of Felton were not being removed: “The mountain is still moving.”

BULLETIN: Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputies report suspects arrested 5 p.m. Feb. 28. No further details.

The San Lorenzo Valley Water District is headed for a busy year that is likely to include another round of hearings to increase water rates.

Seemingly safe inside his Felton home around noon on a stormy Feb. 7, Moss Caballero turned his head when he heard what he quickly discovered was a mudslide rumbling down the hill outside his house into Shingle Mill Creek below.

The storms of 2017 claimed their second life in the Santa Cruz Mountains this week when a newspaper delivery man plunged his car into Kings Creek and drowned.

Santa Cruz County caught a rare glimpse of the sun this week, while preparing for another storm to hit the region in the Sunday-Monday time frame.

For old-timers and relative newcomers alike, it’s helpful to remember just how bad traffic can be after a natural disaster.

Dan Selling and his wife Liz Taylor-Selling were sorting through the lower level of their home in Felton Grove last weekend. A couple inches of slippery silt was everywhere.