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.
The former owner of the Brookdale Lodge, who was convicted of wire fraud last fall, was sentenced on April 3 to 48 months in prison and ordered to pay $4.2 million in restitution.
Plucked from a certain death in tragic kill lots of the Midwest, the eight horses corralled at Pregnant Mare Rescue off Glenwood Drive north of Scotts Valley owe their lives to the struggling non-profit organization.
The San Lorenzo Valley Water District on Wednesday refused to release a letter that it had cited Monday as the reason it decided to pay ex-director Terry Vierra’s legal bills for two years.
Terry Vierra’s request in late 2014 that the San Lorenzo Valley Water District take on his conflict-of-interest case turned out to be a costly gamble – for him and for the district.
 In a dramatic turnaround, the San Lorenzo Valley Water District Board of Directors voted unanimously on Monday, April 3 to spend no further money on the Terry Vierra conflict-of-interest case.
Scott Weese, a division chief with Cal Fire CZU, spends plenty of time pouring over forest-fuel-environment maps and briefing safety crews on weather conditions.
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