The County of Santa Cruz has advocated for a 20 percent reduction in water usage in the county to combat a nearly rainless winter.

Faced with looming statewide droughts due to lack of significant rainfall, some Santa Cruz County residents, water districts, and nonprofit organizations are turning to rainwater harvesting as a means of maximizing the uses of what little rain actually has come through.

Scotts Valley High School science teacher Naomi Lyall was severely injured in a snowboarding accident in Lake Tahoe yesterday.

Selma Oesterle Stenton

Florence F. Kuo

With temperatures in the 70s the past several weeks, warm, dry conditions have defined the winter months in Santa Cruz County

Candy connoisseurs and seekers of sweets, set course for Scotts Valley.