Monarch butterflies from the western United States have arrived in Santa Cruz and other parts of the California Coast, clumping in the thousands on branches of Monterey pine, coastal redwoods and ...

SANTA CRUZ — A blaze caused by an unauthorized cooking fire within Natural Bridges State Beach on a warm and windy Thursday afternoon was quickly contained by the Santa Cruz Fire Department in ...

SANTA CRUZ — Volunteers with the Marine Mammal Center rescued a sea lion that washed up on the beach at Natural Bridges State Beach Sunday afternoon. The Marine Mammal Center is a nonprofit ...

Western monarch butterflies at Natural Bridges State Beach, California, one of the top four overwintering sites for the species. (Photo courtesy of California State Parks Foundation) The Western ...

SANTA CRUZ — Volunteers with the Marine Mammal Center rescued a sea lion that washed up on the beach at Natural Bridges State Beach Sunday afternoon. The Marine Mammal Center is a nonprofit ...

Santa Cruz crews contained two vegetation fires caused by unauthorized cooking at Natural Bridges State Beach on Thursday afternoon, fire officials said. The Santa Cruz Fire Department said the ...