Several northbound lanes of Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz mountains were closed for hours after a big rig caught on fire.

In a shocking public event, a local activist set fire to himself in downtown Santa Cruz, just hours after both the second ...

They also created some of the biggest and best surf to ever fire across one ... and it fell to 23-year-old Santa Cruz local Alessandro ‘Alo’ Slebir to catch and ride. The wave has since ...

Read more on our AI policy here. It has been burning on private land for three hours. There is no information on the containment of the fire and its cause has not yet been determined.

The CZU inferno destroyed about 700 homes in Santa Cruz County. Of those, 127 residences have been rebuilt and another 134 are under construction, according to the county.

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including 89 Cal Fire personnel and teams from Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Scotts Valley, and Central Fire). Some of the most sought-after, now burning, neighborhoods, in LA are on the edges of the ...