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A massive mob of runners pour through the Seabright Area in Santa Cruz Sunday during the annual Wharf to Wharf race.

In the wake of a series of hurricanes that slammed the East Coast, and a pair of earthquakes that ripped through Mexico earlier this month, Santa Cruz County residents are starting to wonder when the disaster will strike closer to home.

Santa Cruz County on Wednesday reported its first death caused by influenza this season, a person listed only as being under 65.

The massive cluster of wildfires in Napa County has so far clawed its way through nearly 192,000 acres, destroyed some 5,700 homes and businesses and killed 34 people. But it has also spewed smoke throughout the Bay Area, as far away as Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties.

What started in 1991 as a way for their children to ride on a begonia-covered float down Soquel Creek has turned into a multigenerational affair for the neighbors of Riverview Terrace.

During Open Farm Tours on Sunday, 10 family farms open their doors to the public to give them a glimpse of a world normally closed to the public.

Nestled in a light-industrial district on West Lake Avenue lies Monterey Bay Caterers, a business with a small breakfast-and-lunch cafe and a bustling catering business.

As soon as October, county officials are expected to open the county’s newest pump track at Pinto Lake, a 10,000-square-foot patch of earth sculpted with banking turns and jumps for off-road bicycling enthusiasts.

A record 19.6 million people turned in their voter registration forms by the deadline, according to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla.