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Santa Cruz County is moving forward with a pilot program in a fire-thrashed area of the coast that would allow displaced residents to rebuild off-grid dwellings that otherwise wouldn’t be up to code. The Limited-Density Owner-Built Rural Dwellings plan slashes red tape for some...

Around the bend of the San Lorenzo River from a section recently rehabilitated with long grasses, buzzing insects and wildflowers, bicycle carcasses lay strewn outside a tent. An intricate woodcarving adorned the entrance to another. A dog carried a skateboard in its mouth, tugging...

Anthony Hong is quite the tree-lover, although he isn’t exactly a card-carrying environmental activist. But when he could feel the thud of trunks slamming into the ground from his home in Bonny Doon, as part of a PG&E tree-removal project, he started looking for...

The massive “slip-out” of the mountainside underneath the northbound lane of Highway 9, just south of Brookdale, resulted in more than 16 months of a temporary traffic signal and single lane access to Boulder Creek. For regular commuters, the long-awaited completion of the repair project appears noticeably close- scheduled for September. 

The San Lorenzo Valley Water District is on its way to preserving the valley’s drinking water for generations to come.

The work of a host of Bonny Doon artists will be on display next weekend during the second DoonArt Tour.

A memorial service is planned for Sunday, April 1, for Anna Louise Legner-Brunetti-Foster of Scotts Valley, who died of cancer March 15. She was 46.