San Jose’s historic Rancho San Vicente has a new owner: Santa Clara County. On Friday, the Peninsula Open Space Trust, a nonprofit conservation group in Palo Alto, sold the land to the county ...

Santa Cruz County’s evacuation zones can be found on the Zonehaven map. For Monterey County’s warnings and orders, see the sheriff’s Facebook or Twitter page. • Storm tracking map ...

A 6-year-old girl was injured while walking on a trail after an attack by animal suspected to be a mountain lion at the Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve on Sunday, park officials said.

Santa Clara County Parks recommends the following parks for prime wildflower viewing: Stiles Ranch Trail at Santa Teresa, Calero, Coyote Lake Harvey Bear, Almaden Quicksilver and Joseph D. Grant.