Local News

Rabid skunks and coati have been reported in Santa Cruz County, including in Elgin. Here’s how to protect yourself, your pets and your livestock.

The locally organized trail run event returned Feb. 6-7 to Patagonia for its second year, attracting 140 runners—70% of them female—across three long-distance races. Here’s a roundup of the event.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Feb. 4 invite-only speech at the border wall near Nogales did not go unremarked upon by locals.

Here’s the meeting’s complete agenda, and information on how to participate.

News and notes from the Patagonia Town Council’s three January meetings.

A log of calls to the Sheriff’s office from eastern Santa Cruz County in January.

Five residents from the Canelo Hills area have expressed concerns to the PRT about being overrun with “bad actors” during the Coues whitetail deer season that concluded in December. They want to see fewer permits issued—and more enforcement.

South32 will present a ‘water monitoring results update’ at Wednesday’s Patagonia Town Council meeting. Here’s the meeting’s complete agenda, and information on how to participate.