For decades, the scenic oceanfront landscape along Highway 1 north of Santa Cruz — with its coastal bluffs, rugged beaches, farm fields and redwood canyons — has been the site of big environmental ...

Labor Day is just around the corner. If you’re looking to spend a beautiful Monday outdoors without facing the traffic to ...

It’s been half a decade since the CZU Lightning Complex Fire devastated Big Basin State Park. The fire forced park officials ...

Five years after the CZU Lightning Complex fire devastated the Santa Cruz Mountains, homeowners and Big Basin Redwoods State ...

More than a hundred local leaders, elected officials, trail builders, volunteers and conservationists, young and old, ...

Laurel Mill Lodge, a residential property at 16770 Redwood Lodge Road in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Aug. 21, 2024. The image shows the main lodge building and the adjacent grounds.

The Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel described the construction in 1879: “With its great bores … its powerful bridges … its heavy rails, its easy curves … its expensive right of way, its smell of money from ...

The CZU August Lightning Complex fire killed Tad Jones, a 73-year-old man who lived in the mountains above Santa Cruz. It also destroyed hundreds of homes, displacing residents, and left scores ...

But on Saturday, a new chapter begins. Coast Dairies, a breathtaking 5,843-acre property more than five times the size of San ...

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors debated the idea in the 1990s. “Almost every feasibility study has said that, yes, the route through the mountains is a good idea,” Whaley says. “And the ...

The Cotoni-Coast Dairies property, which spans 6 miles of oceanfront, is five times the size of Golden Gate Park.