A warmer, drier climate means wildfires are getting worse, and encroaching on cities — with devastating impact. Toxic chemicals from those burns can get into damaged drinking water systems, and even ...

I once wrote a musical play with a character who spoke almost exclusively in words beginning with “a.” The practice was, in her own words, “awesome” and “awfully annoying.” Her appellation was Alpha.

The early immigrants to Santa Cruz County from the east quickly realized that there was an abundance of natural resources in ...