Heavy wind and rain have knocked down trees and wires throughout Scotts Valley and the San Lorenzo Valley today. Fire, PG&E and county crews are scrambling to keep roads clear during the storm. Highway 9 in Brookdale and Boulder Creek has been blocked by fallen trees and lines during the day and officials recommend residents keep driving to a minimum during the storm.

After several months of deliberating, the Scotts Valley City Council unanimously passed a city law that will prohibit medicinal marijuana dispensaries in Scotts Valley.

A landslide blocked Conference Drive, the main roadway into Mount Hermon, and knocked out the main electrical power to the community on Wednesday morning.

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.

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.