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Tuesday’s blue Santa Cruz skies the ‘calm before the storm’ Jessica A. York © Provided by Santa Cruz Sentinel CONCORD, CA – JAN. 24: Storm clouds loom over the horizon as Seamus Acuavera, 5, of Antioch, runs ahead of his mom Jennifer Acuavera as they spent the morning hiking the trails at Lime Ridge Open Space in Concord, Calif., on Sunday, January 24, 2021. The Bay Area is bracing for a storm front to hit the area starting tomorrow. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News...

UpdatedMon, Jan 25, 2021 at 1:13 pm PT Reply This is the third time that evacuations have recently been ordered in the San Lorenzo Valley. (Renee Schiavone/Patch) SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CA — Evacuations were ordered for nearly 5,000 in Santa Cruz County Monday morning as officials eyes forecasts that showed heavy rains potentially surpassing the threshold to cause debris flow in wildfire-stricken areas. Residents of 2,800 homes in parts of the San Lorenzo Valley and north coast of Santa Cruz Coun...

California Firefighter, Jacob Mual A chef for 22 years, Jacob Mual started volunteering with the local fire department in Sonoma County, California, in 2015. He now works full-time as an EMT with a local ambulance service, but he still volunteers with the local fire department and was on the ground at the Walbridge Fire that devastated the state last summer. He is writing a cookbook, ‘Functional Food for First Responders’, to which Lidia has contributed her recipe for Chicken Alla Pitocca...

UpdatedWed, Jan 20, 2021 at 6:05 pm PT Reply The Cal Fire San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit battled multiple wildfires all day Tuesday across the county, but primarily in the Santa Cruz Mountains. (Renee Schiavone/Patch) SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CA — Officials have lifted all evacuation orders and firefighters expected full containment Wednesday night on most, if not all, of the wildfires blazing across Santa Cruz County. Now, Cal Fire San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit Chief Ian Larkin is calling on the public to ...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Four years of a presidency unlike any other in American history are coming to a close, but don’t expect the changing of the guard to resemble a return to normalcy. On Wednesday — 10 months into a pandemic that has taken more than 400,000 American lives and two weeks to the day after a violent, pro-Trump mob laid siege to the U.S. Capitol — President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in as ...

From skunks to peacocks: The Bay Area animal stories that cheered us up this year FacebookTwitterEmail From sheep to raccoons, animals kept us entertained with their antics this year.Blair Heagerty / SFGATE 2020 was a weird year. Even the animals agree. It started with a flood of "nature is healing, we are the virus" memes after some bogus news about dolphins returning to Venice canals went viral, and ended with ... COVID-infected zombie mink rising from mass graves in Denmark? Yikes. But it wa...

Geoff Ellsworth I want to check in with our community as we move into the holiday season and forge ahead through the latest challenges of COVID-19. Through all of the challenges of 2020, we have worked together as a community and become stronger and more caring. We can keep moving forward together to make this the most meaningful holiday season ever and keep working together to see each other through whatever challenges we face. Regarding COVID-19, we know everyone is tired and the ...

Special Report 12 California wines that define 2020 These wines, which make up a case, are not only delicious — they tell the story of what happened with wine in this tumultuous year By Esther Mobley |  Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 9:23 AM 2020 has been an earth-shattering year for the American wine world. And it would have been even without the coronavirus. Major fires plowed through some of California’s most prestigious terroir, destroying wineries and threatening an unprecedented vol...

Evacuating Santa Cruz County’s homeless amid disaster presents a difficult task [Santa Cruz Sentinel, Calif.] Dec. 13—SANTA CRUZ — When it comes to disaster response, the public’s immediate focus in the moment often is on safe evacuations. Safe escape planning and timely evacuation notice were prominent among resident concerns expressed during a town hall meeting last month related to the dangers of mixing pending winter rainfall and the devastation wrought by the CZU August Lightning C...

Print This is the Dec. 10, 2020, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. More than 111 million acres of U.S. wilderness have been designated since 1964, when the Wilderness Act was signed by President Johnson. It’s the highest level of protection the federal government offers, ensuring that wild lands remain free of permanent roads, motor vehicles, commercial enterprise and structures of any kind. The law’s ...