Forward progress is stopped on the Summit Fire, which is burning at about two acres. Evacuations are underway along Alta Vista in the Santa Cruz Mountains after the fire broke out this evening ...

Leah Joslin, Alta Vista Regional Hospital's chief nursing officer and a clinical instructor at Luna Community College, checks a monitor while preparing medications for her patient Oct. 9.

The Alta Vista Botanical Gardens was founded in 1999, but its history stretches back further. In the 1960s, retired surgeon Paul Smitgen and his wife Martha bought the property, ...