WATSONVILLE, Calif., Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Winds were diminishing late Sunday and firefighters said they were making progress on a wildfire that had prompted California officials to order evacuations.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- University of California scientists say they may have found a complete mammoth tusk on California's Santa Cruz Island.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Sept. 25 (UPI) -- City officials in Santa Cruz, Calif., have given the go-ahead for medical marijuana patients to toke up in a tent during an upcoming event in a city park.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Aug. 4 (UPI) -- University of California-Santa Cruz officials say they are determined to bring to justice those responsible for the firebombings of researchers' homes.
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 21 (UPI) -- Mountain lions in California are losing their natural habitats and being cramped by increasing development in the state, experts say.
WATSONVILLE, Calif., June 21 (UPI) -- California firefighters said Saturday they hoped to contain a 500-acre wildfire in Santa Cruz County, the latest of three serious fires there in recent weeks.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., May 22 (UPI) -- California residents near the Santa Cruz Mountains were evacuated Thursday as wildfires burned about 1,000 acres and threatened several homes, officials said.
LA PAZ, Bolivia, May 5 (UPI) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales has denounced the vote for greater autonomy for Santa Cruz province in the nation's eastern region, officials said.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 30 (UPI) -- Rescuers said a hiker who claimed to have broken his leg while hiking in California's Santa Cruz Mountains only thought he was injured because he was on drugs.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The tinder-dry Angeles National Forest was closed to the public Tuesday as an 8,000-acre wildfire continued to threaten homes in eastern Los Angeles County. Another wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains outside San Jose was also a threat to homes as smoke
