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Boulder Creek’s Tyrone Clark refers to himself as a “solutions guy.” He’s been in Boulder Creek since 1991, and when the CZU August Lighting Complex fire swept through the area, he felt compelled to do more than just watch. “When the evacuation orders came down,...

Up until mid-December, the Bonny Doon Union Elementary School District had seen just a single case of Covid-19 in its student body this school year. And before that, it had only recorded one other case during the entire pandemic. Now, the school system currently...

The man charged with contacting minors for sexual purposes he met while working for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Cruz County (BGCSCC) in Scotts Valley pleaded not guilty to 11 charges in Santa Cruz County Superior Court on Aug. 18. Ciriaco Johnson, 24,...

A hearing in Santa Cruz Superior Court is set for Friday, Aug. 3, for a 20-year-old transient who was arrested in Felton last week for allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

A fire that started in an outbuilding next to a house on 1340 Lakeview Drive in Felton was almost entirely contained by quick-acting neighbors with a garden hose today.

It may have seemed anticlimactic, especially with a very wet April in the forecast, but Gov. Jerry Brown nonetheless announced on April 7 an official end to the three-year statewide drought emergency.

Rarely does a person give back so much to the neighborhood she settled in as Vicki Wees. Wees, now 64-years-old, first moved into a rented house in the Felton Grove neighborhood in 1979, when she was 25. Except for a few years here and there, Wees has lived in Felton Grove ever since. About 10 years ago, as something of a hobby, Wees began collecting historic photographs, documents and maps of the Felton Grove neighborhood.

The Santa Cruz County Emergency Operations Center has released a map of properties damaged in the CZU Lighting Complex Fires.