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.”
The Superior Court conflict-of-interest case involving former San Lorenzo Water District Director Terry Vierra continues, with the next proceeding March 17.
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.
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.
Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency announced that its Public Health Division has been awarded three competitive state grants totaling $639,631 from the California...