SANTA CRUZ — A hand-constructed walkway winds to the Monarch Grove at Natural Bridges State Beach. Monarchs have used this eucalyptus grove for decades, making it California’s only state monarch ...

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

(KRON) — A vegetation fire was contained at Natural Bridges State Park in Santa Cruz around 4:12 p.m. Thursday. Santa Cruz Fire Department Battalion Chief Josh Coleman said that firefighters arriving ...