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.

Col. William Howard Hardwick (USAF ret.)

It will be a music-filled homecoming for Taylor Rae Vencill when she returns to Felton for a show in her stomping grounds next weekend.