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The city of Santa Cruz is studying the possibility of enhancing King Street as a bicycle route and an alternative over Mission Street.

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Wildfires were scattered around Northern California on Sunday, many of them started by lightning, as crews farther south were close to containing a blaze that had forced thousands to evacuate.The largest had ...

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A firefighter helps battle the Whitehurst fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains near Mt.

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A wildfire closed a roughly six-mile stretch of scenic coast Highway 1 destroying at least one home and threatening several others in unincorporated santa Cruz County, Calif., on Friday, June 20, 2008.

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The Trabing Fire north of Watsonville is about 90 percent containment and crews are expected to fully contain the blaze later Saturday, fire officials said.

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The East Bay has lost nearly 12,000 jobs so far in 2008 - including thousands more last month - in an ominous indication that an employment recession has descended on the region's struggling economy.

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Don't start taking joy rides in the SUV just yet, but prices at the gas pump are finally easing in California.

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A Cal Fire statement released Monday night said the fire, reported around 3 p.m. Wednesday near Bonny Doon, is expected to be controlled June 28.

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The dramatic forces brewing as summer begins today seem destined to leave a turbulent trademark.

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California agriculture officials announced Thursday the suspension of the controversial aerial moth spraying in urban areas.

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FRESNO, Calif. _ Officials are suspending California's aerial spraying program to combat a crop-eating moth in urban areas, after environmentalists sued raising concerns about the pesticide's effects on human ...

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It's the grass fire version of "when it rains it pours." Here it is six to eight weeks before the official fire season typically starts, and Northern California already has been crackling with destructive ...

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The man is described as white, between 18 and 22 years old and about 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 11 inches tall with a thin build and sandy-colored hair, according to Cal Fire.

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Ground Zero for the Martin fire in Bonny Doon was a relatively untouched 545-acre forest reserve tucked in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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A peregrine falcon named Cielo has died after the 2-month-old bird likely crashed into San Jose City Hall where she and her family have been living on a ledge.

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The Arboretum at UC-Santa Cruz will begin charging admission on July 1 to drum up funding to help maintain its 120 acres of plant collections and gardens.

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Owners of nearly 90 percent of the structures destroyed in last month's wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains did not properly clear flammable brush from the property, state fire officials say.

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A wildfire near Santa Cruz, California, that's forced some 500 people to evacuate is still only 5 percent contained.

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Cal Fire investigators are looking for a man they call a person of interest concerning the Martin Fire, which has burned 520 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains since Wednesday.

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San Jose Mercury News Jun. 14--Some were too devastated or overcome with relief to speak.

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About 1,500 residents in the heavily forested hills north of Santa Cruz, California, have fled their homes because of an advancing wildfire.

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Linda Govan is addicted to whimsy. The crazier it sounds or looks, the more interested she becomes.

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A raging forest fire that forced hundreds to flee their homes in Californnia's Santa Cruz Mountains has grown to 900 acres from 300.

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The University of California-Santa Cruz's campus grew in popularity this year among the state's high school seniors, with a record 4,573 young adults saying they'll head to the campus next fall, up 430 from ...

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Smoke from a fire in Bonny Doon at Martin Rd. and Ice Cream Grade Rd. can be seen from the top of the Summit off Hwy 17 at 4pm, June 11, 2008.

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Police in Santa Cruz are scouring surveillance tape and searching for two men wanted in connection with the brazen kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman who was held captive for 24-hours. KRON 4's Rob ...

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Police are looking for a man matching this description in a sexual assault case in which a Santa Cruz woman was abducted, robbed and assaulted over the course of Thursday and Friday.

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Lifelong Santa Cruz surfer Pat Farley is one of the main stars of the upcoming film "Between the Lines," a documentary on the distinct paths taken by two young surfers in the 1960s confronted with the Vietnam ...

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The advisory is in response to the announcement of a large-scale un-permitted demonstration that is expected to potentially occupy one or more intersections of Mission Street from approximately 3:00 p.m. to ...

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Early morning commuters got a wake-up call they weren't expecting this morning when a mountain lion jumped over a car on Bear Creek Road.

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Jun 6, 2008 3:27 PM AP 21 mins ago: Plan to kill feral cats on San Nicolas island criticized An animal protection group criticized a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to use dogs, padded leg traps and ...

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While the number of remaining firefighters is just about 10 percent of the personnel that responded at the peak of the blaze, the fire may still not be declared under control until June 15.

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Sacramento Bee: "Slowly, slowly water legislation advances" Take a walk beside the Capitol grounds at night and you can often see sprinkler water running off sidewalks and into storm drains.

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday declared a drought in California - a largely symbolic move intended to jump-start conservation efforts and push the governor's own ambitious plan to beef up the state's ...

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Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel Assembly candidate Barbara Sprenger joins her supporters at Boccis Cellar in Santa Cruz to watch the election returns Tuesday night.

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OVER THE PAST 20 years, California's population has grown by nearly 12 million. The state has added large tracts of land to its park system, and there are 5 million more park visitors a year now than two ...

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Fire crews on Sunday continued the grueling, tedious task of extinguishing embers and digging out smoldering tree roots in the 4,270-acre Summit fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Nearly 17 years after one of the most disastrous blazes in California history, neighbors gathered Sunday to replace steel plaques dedicated to the 25 victims of the Oakland firestorm that had been stolen by ...

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In the densely wooded Santa Cruz Mountains, where last week's wildfire torched 4,270 acres and 31 homes, the notion of deliberately burning brush to get rid of it strikes some as an invitation to disaster.

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