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Santa Cruz County sent a strike team on Thursday to the Camp Fire in Butte County. Five engines were sent with a leader and an assistant leader. The agencies participating are Scotts Valley, Branciforte, Santa Cruz, Central and Aptos/La Selva. The Strike Team leader is from Central and the Assistant Leader is from Aptos/La Selva. Four people are assigned to each engine.

Thanks to a pair of grants awarded to the city of Scotts Valley by the state and the federal government, local students may have quicker, easier and safer ways to walk to school, as early as the end of 2012.

Highway 9 has been re-opened as of 4:45 p.m.. However, traffic is still very slow in the area

Five candidates are vying for two open seats on the Ben Lomond Fire Protection District board of directors in next month’s election.

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 Scotts Valley City Council unanimously passed its annual budget on June 16, dipping into its rainy day fund in hopes of being catapulted back to financial health after the novel coronavirus sent finances into disarray. The $1.4 million deficit plan will draw down reserves...