Local environmental leaders have planned a series of workshops that aim to give Santa Cruz County residents more information about what has become a hot-button energy technology issue amid a wave of ...

The cougar found in the Santa Monica Mountains in March represented the first documented physical manifestations of extremely low genetic diversity within an isolated population of less than two ...

WATSONVILLE — Recent testing of South Santa Cruz County soils ... plant in Moss Landing in January found no significant abnormalities, according to data released Friday by the county.

Exceptionally dry conditions and strong Santa Ana winds have fueled the dangerous fires in Los Angeles. Southern California has been abnormally dry for months, even in what is typically the rainy ...