Live Oak News

A 14-year-old Live Oak boy was flown to Stanford Hospital with severe head trauma after he was struck by a car while walking north on 30th Avenue near Portola Drive on Wednesday, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A former pastor at the Live Oak Community Church in Oakley was jailed Monday on charges he supported a lavish lifestyle by incurring debt in the church's name, including a $111,000 mortgage loan obtained by falsifying documents.

Nov. 17 proved to be a busy day for the Central Fire District, which responded to two house fires.

The relocation and consolidation of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office is a project I have been working on for some time.

A woman suspected of hitting a teenage boy walking his bike on 30th Avenue just before 7 p.m. Wednesday was arrested early Thursday at her Live Oak home, the California Highway Patrol reported.

A 14-year-old boy was flown to Stanford Hospital with severe head trauma after he was struck by a car while walking north on 30th Avenue near Portola Drive on Wednesday, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A garage fire early Tuesday displaced two Muriel Drive residents, authorities reported.

The November meeting of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society is Tuesday.

Author, Barbara Ghazarian, the Queen of Quince, will be discussing Simply Quince, from Breakfast to Dinner for 3000 Years, from 4-6PM, at the Santa Cruz Live Oak Grange 1900 17th Avenue in Santa Cruz.

A state appellate court this week reversed the attempted murder conviction of a teen accused of shooting a man five times outside a Live Oak apartment complex, authorities said.

A man was struck in the head by a rock while he was chasing teenagers who had thrown stones through his window about 5:30 p.m. Monday.

More than 250 Mid-County residents turned out at Live Oak Elementary School on Tuesday night to hear how a windfall of local tax money might be spent on their community.

Live Oak may one day be home to a new Sheriff's Office headquarters. That's one of the proposals in a freshly minted plan to reshape Mid-County using millions of dollars of public money.

The California Highway Patrol won a $1 million grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to strengthen statewide enforcement and education efforts to have people buckle up safely, the CHP announced this week.

Construction of the first certified green church in the county is kicking off as the United Methodist Church of Santa Cruz breaks ground for the project today.

On Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. the Board of Supervisors will hold an historic first meeting at Live Oak Elementary when the board will hear the community's input on the five-year plan for the County's Redevelopment Agency .

After decades of silence, the 95-year-old school bell that lived in Live Oak's one-room schoolhouse rang out loud and clear once again on Wednesday morning in its new home at Live Oak Elementary School.

Officers from five law enforcement agencies targeted gang members living in Live Oak and Watsonville who are on probation or parole Wednesday.

Live Oak lighting designer Johnson Art Studio will hold "Lighting Up the Future" from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Nov.

He and his writing partner John Harden won the award in a competition that considered close to 4,000 scripts.