As many as 28 homes were left isolated and without power Monday morning after a massive mudslide buried a large section of Nelson Road under several hundred feet of large rocks and mud.
Shopping locally is about to get a whole lot easier: Two Scotts Valley business owners have launched Think Local First, Scotts Valley — an independent affiliate of the successful Think Local campaign in Santa Cruz.
A 23-year-old recidivist from Scotts Valley will head to trial on charges of robbery next week, pending the outcome of a confirmation hearing set for Friday, March 18.
The sweet smell of damp, rich earth combined with ripening vegetables drifts lazily over terraced rows of plants on a warm spring afternoon at Love Apple Farms in Scotts Valley.
In Santa Cruz County, the arboreal spotlight is so focused on some of the world’s tallest trees — the coastal redwoods, the Douglas-firs — that it might not occur to people outside the know to look here for some of the world’s smallest.
Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in California, following swells that hit the state’s coastline on Friday, March 11. The currents, dubbed a tsunami by many, were caused by the 8.9-scale earthquake that struck Japan on Thursday, March 10.