Five years after the CZU fire, Army veteran Justin Walker says Santa Cruz County has blocked his family’s rebuild through shifting rules, repeated geologic demands and legal stonewalling. Despite ...

Tonje Switzer (right) received the Green Heart award in October, an honor named for Mountain Community Resources’ late founder, Mary Hammer. UC Santa Cruz alumna and Executive Director of the Santa ...

In 2020, around 80% of the Christmas trees at Crest Ranch Tree Farm burned in the CZU Complex Fire, a devastating California wildfire that ripped through the Santa Cruz Mountains for nearly 40 days.

There are new accusations from some who live in the town of Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains claiming Cal Fire crews did not do enough to save their homes from the CZU Complex Fire. Flames ...

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