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Lookout photojournalist Kevin Painchaud spent a couple days wandering through Santa Cruz County and chatting with locals ...
After running dry, the Santa Cruz River in southern Arizona is coming back to life. But restoration still faces challenges.
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. - A wildfire erupted near Santa Clarita on Tuesday and spread quickly, before fire crews were able to ...
Dragonflies, toads, roadrunners, snakes and kingfishers all found a home at the Santa Cruz River downtown while Tucson Water was releasing large amounts of water into that stretch. Ecologists and ...
U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren is one of a dozen California representatives to Congress who criticized Trump’s budget request for the ...
A body was found Thursday along the Pajaro River levee, according to the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, the second body found in the area in the past two months ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - A new temporary art installation, LANDING PLACE, is now on display along the Santa Cruz River in downtown Tucson. This work, featuring handmade windsocks, celebrates the ...
A $1,000 reward is being offered for information about a fire that started in the Santa Cruz River.
An unknown number of fake parking tickets were left on cars parked near the beach in Santa Cruz on June 15, the Santa Cruz Police Department announced in a warning to the public.
The Santa Cruz River dried up in the mid-1900s. It started running again some years later thanks entirely to wastewater inputs—but ran polluted due to the water’s relatively poor quality.
Santa Cruz's tax on sugary beverages went into effect Thursday, seven years after a California bill banned local governments from imposing taxes on soda until 2031.