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Thunderstorms sparked as many as 75 wildfires in a wilderness area in far Northern California on Saturday as officials farther south got close to containing a blaze that destroyed several homes and forced ...

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The possibility of lightning Saturday afternoon in parts of the Bay Area has prompted the National Weather Service to issue a red flag warning for the region.

Thunderstorms developed off the Central Coast late Saturday morning, and lightning has been reported in the Monterey Bay area, said National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Tentinger.

The storms are moving northeast, and the red flag warning applies to the eastern and southern portions of the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the entire Monterey Bay area, until 11 p.m. Saturday night.

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Multiple roadside fires along Highway 1 near Watsonville have forced widespread evacuations in the area.

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Highway 1 is closed in both directions near Watsonville after three separate firs started, CHP officials said Friday.

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Tom Teaford here. This collision occurred just before noon today, 6/16/08. The large black vehicle, an SUV or pickup, went through a guard rail, toppled a cypress tree and wound up upside down and facing the ...

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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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Firefighters on Friday declared the Martin Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains 65 percent contained as several roads affected by the fire were reopened to local residents.

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According to the USGS, the earthquake had a depth of 5.7 miles and was centered 6 miles east of Las Lomas and 8 miles southeast of Watsonville.

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Police say they've arrested five South County gang members involved in the May 4 shooting into a Maple Street home that seriously injured a grandfather.

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The warm weather may invite summer celebration, but new laws on the books don't - at least to excess.

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A Watsonville man who died in a three-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon had a passenger in his car whose blood-alcohol content exceeded the legal limit, the California Highway Patrol reported.

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Carlsbad-based AdaptiveARC says the plasma-arc gasification project would use temperatures as high as 3,000 degrees to vaporize municipal waste and convert it into fuel for electricity.

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Keith Chastain surveys the burned over land that was once his three-bedroom home on Ormsby Trail.

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MONTEREY, Calif. - To help replenish diminishing supplies at our state's food banks, SK Foods is donating more than 82,000 cases of 15 oz.

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Riders in the AIDS/LifeCycle roll through Watsonville Monday morning along Trafton Road.

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In one of the largest agriculture thefts in recent Santa Cruz County history, thieves targeting a flower grower late last month got away with tons of aluminum worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Metal thieves used a torch to cut up a Watsonville flower grower's aluminum troughs in a $190,000 heist.

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Parking meter rates may rise Higher parking meter rates are the most likely strategy to balance next year's Capitola budget.

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