Zone 0 is the five-foot buffer around a home where all combustible materials — such as plants, wood fences or mulch — must be ...

Recent large wildfires in California have changed communities forever in ways difficult to predict. Rebuilding statistics ...

From the legacy of Bonny Doon's CZU fire "Renegades" to what's on the agenda for lawmakers around Santa Cruz County this week ...

Cal Fire Siskiyou Unit and City of Weed Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire Sunday morning. All evacuations have been lifted ...

Five years after the CZU fire, “The Renegades” of Bonny Doon are remembered as both heroes and cautionary tales — neighbors ...

Cal Fire said the region experienced 173 lightning strikes within a 24 hour period, five of which were confirmed within the ...

When the urge to breed strikes in the spring or summer, a murrelet flies 30 to 40 miles or more inland. The parents take ...

Firefighters quickly contained a vehicle fire near Santa Cruz that spread to an adjacent structure and another vehicle, preventing a potential wildfire.

CAL FIRE CZU says they put out a car fire and stopped it from spreading to nearby vegetation Thursday morning.

In Santa Cruz County, firefighters from the city's fire department, CAL FIRE CZU, and Scotts Valley Fire prevented a vehicle fire from becoming a wildland fire near Dimeo Lane and Highway 1, north of ...

Lawmakers introduced a bill last week to extend a program that exempts wildfire survivors from paying taxes on certain disaster aid used to fund recovery ...

CAL FIRE is on alert tonight, keeping a close eye on the threat of dry lightning in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The risk is ...