SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) – A Santa Cruz Fire Ground Commander battling the CZU Lightning Complex Fire was robbed by looters over the weekend, according to Cal Fire. When the firefighter returned to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Families who lost everything in the devastating CZU Lightning Complex Fire in August, now have something to look forward to. San Francisco Zion Church and Sacramento-based ...

SANTA CRUZ — A documentary created by a UC Santa Cruz alum about endangered coho salmon and their struggle to survive in the Santa Cruz Mountains through the CZU Lightning Complex fire will air on the ...

Tonje Switzer (right) received the Green Heart award in October, an honor named for Mountain Community Resources’ late founder, Mary Hammer. UC Santa Cruz alumna and Executive Director of the Santa ...

BOULDER CREEK — California’s oldest state park — Big Basin Redwoods — thrived for 118 years, but it took less than 24 hours for almost all of the 18,000-acre property to go up in smoke. In the early ...

DAVENPORT, Calif. (KGO) -- A Santa Cruz County man whose family lost everything in the CZU Complex Fire decided to write a touching letter to his daughter, letting her know her childhood home had ...

It’s been nearly four years since the CZU Lightning Complex Fire raged through the Santa Cruz Mountains, destroying 911 homes, devastating Big Basin Redwoods State Park and blackening 86,500 acres — ...

SANTA CRUZ — For the past decade, multimedia artists, filmmakers and married couple Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have made movies tackling environmental topics while incorporating humor and ...

After the CZU Lightning Complex fires tore through the counties of San Mateo and Santa Cruz in 2020, over 86,000 acres of land were left ravaged in its wake. Now, scientists from UC Santa Cruz are ...