Santa Cruz County Statewide Articles

Stethoscope or phonendoscope and medical insurance claim form on doctor table in the office, medical concept of life planing. Autumn colors in window.

Norovirus cases are up this winter nationwide and in the Bay Area, experts say.

Los Angeles is the latest of a long list of victims of worsening wildfires. But history suggests we will forget the risks and rebuild the devastated areas.

Growth in EV sales continue to slide, but consumer appetite for hybrids has increased. Range anxiety has been one factor denting EV sales, and another emerged during the L.A. fires when hundreds of thousands of people lost power.

For some in Altadena, the fire took away their place of work and their home.

The L.A.-area fires may pose the first big test of California's wildfire fund, which was set up in 2019 to protect utilities from bankruptcy.

Global warming changed the behavior of the jet stream, and a new pattern is now clear: sapping moisture from the West Coast and freezing the East.

Santa Rosa's Jeff Okrepkie has experience on both sides of disaster, as a wildfire survivor as well as a government official dealing with the aftermath. His counsel includes patience, compassion and building community.

Authorities say they have traced seven homicides — two in a California prison, five on the streets of Los Angeles County — to three men suspected of being top members of the Aryan Brotherhood.

It takes a lot of courage to grow old.

Jessie Mazar squeezed the grab handle in her husband's pickup and groaned as contractions struck her during the 90-minute drive from her home in rural northeastern California to the closest hospital with a maternity unit.

It takes a lot of courage to grow old.

SACRAMENTO — As the nation braces for potential policy shifts under President-elect Donald Trump's "Make America Healthy Again" mantra, the nation's most populous state and largest health care market is preparing for a few changes of its own.

SAN JOSE STATE University is one of the inaugural winners of a new U.S. Department of Education honor recognizing colleges and universities with a track record of enrolling a diverse student body and aiding graduates’ economic mobility.The Santa Clara County …

As horrific as they may be, the wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles neighborhoods, destroying homes and businesses and killing dozens of people, are certainly not unprecedented.

Roughly 465,000 gallons of sewage spilled due to a break in a main sewer line near Laguna Niguel Regional Park, officials said.

A self-described “recovering engineer,” a teacher and others have served as San Mateo County’s Poet Laureate — and now, the city is looking for someone new to fill the role.The deadline to apply to become the city’s poet laureate has …

The Disaster Recovery Center will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the next several weeks.

An agreement for the sale of the Regional Medical Center in Santa Clara County has been reached following months of concern about the area losing important trauma services.  On Monday, the county announced an agreement to purchase Regional Medical Center …

Avery Colvert, 14, wanted to do something special for teen girls like her schoolmates in Altadena whose lives have been upended by the fires.