Every year, on a late summer night, Eva Pagaling joins a group of fellow Chumash paddlers who climb into a tomol, a ...

As marine fog drifts between dead coastal redwoods, it dews onto purple lupines, soft yarrow and brown grasses. Five years ...

A large tree snapped and landed on two moving vehicles in Santa Cruz County, one of which was a California Highway Patrol ...

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DiCaprio took notice of Scannavino’s work and decided to sponsor his work through Re:wild, a nonprofit conservation group ...

Most of the state received more than average precipitation in October — twice normal in many places, four times normal in San ...

Some areas near Los Angeles are under a red flag warning through Wednesday. Elevated Critical Extremely Critical By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. The temperature ...

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A celebrated 44-acre private vineyard estate for sale for $11.7 million sits along a ridgeline of the Santa Cruz Mountains above the area’s fog and bustle of Silicon Valley, which is just 30 minutes ...