Scotts Valley News

The Self Help Center at the Santa Cruz County Law Library will have a workshop on Thursday about civil debt cases.

Bryan Matthew Martin was sentenced Tuesday to 16 years and 8 months in prison after he escaped from Rountree Detention Center and broke into a home and stole a car.

Heavenly Cafe, one of Scotts Valley's landmark breakfast destinations, closed for business abruptly Sunday, June 9 due to an undisclosed family matter.

The Soquel Creek Water District plans a public hearing 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Capitola City Council chamber, 420 Capitola Ave. , on raising the water capacity fees for new hookups starting July 1 and whether to ask customers to vote on the proposed regional desalination plant, and whether to declare a moratorium as a way to save water.

No one was injured in the blaze, which was reported about 9:50 p.m. near 8 Bean Creek Road, said Scotts Valley Fire Capt.

Accomplished Scotts Valley High School graduate Bennett Sanderson joined an elite club Saturday when an Eagle Court of Honor was held for reaching the highest, most challenging rank within Boy Scouts of America.

Sharon Fishel works with several students this week at St. Andrews Preschool in Ben Lomond.

Midnight: Deputies responded to an altercation on the 6300 block of Highway 9 in Felton and arrested man for beating and causing several injuries to another man.

The Scotts Valley City Council voted last week to move forward with a plan that, if realized, would mean the sale of a portion of the city's recycled wastewater to irrigate the courses at nearby Pasatiempo Golf Club.

Hurray to Santa Cruz Metro for re-establishing the Big Basin weekend bus service to California's oldest state park.

Jody Johnson is a 67-year-old emergency foster mom who takes in teenagers declared "at risk."

The company announced the pxGrid context information sharing framework, built within the Cisco Identity Services Engine.

If you had to take a guess about what local news topic has generated the most letters to the editor over the past decade, what might it be? And it's why we hesitate to even venture an opinion, however neutered, on a volatile topic where people on both sides -- and there's hardly a middle ground -- are convinced they're right.

Santa Clara County responds to a claim of retaliation against a District Attorney's Office employee who was demoted and relocated after speaking out against DA Rosen's free time off policy.

Police have released sketches of a man who is suspected of robbing a market in Scotts Valley last week, according to police.

Caffe Bene owner Ken Botelho has sold the name of his downtown business to a Korean firm, which has its own Caffe Bene and wants to expand the brand to the United States.

In the face of countywide water shortages and mandatory cutbacks in water usage, a decade-old idea of maintaining the Pasatiempo Gold Club's 60 acres of greens with recycled water has been revitalized.

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.- Scotts Valley Police Department recieved a report of an indecent exposure at 7:30 p.m. on Friday at the intersection of Glenwood Dr. and Meadow View Dr. The victim called the police after a man standing on the corner pulled up his short to expose himself to her.

Scotts Valley resident Marco Walsh says he entertains his twins Vicente and Victoria at least once a week by taking them to ride the trains and play amid the towering redwoods at Roaring Camp Railroads.

A man armed with a handgun stole an undisclosed amount of cash from a check stand at a grocery store in Scotts Valley on Thursday night.