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This story has been updated from a previous version. Watsonville Community Hospital CEO Stephen Gray will step down July 10 after leading the community-owned hospital for more than 2½ years, hospital officials announced Monday. The Pajaro Valley Health Care District Board, which oversees the hospital, has...

Santa Clara County officials, community organizers and residents gathered at the county government center in San Jose May 14 to oppose a federal plan to build an immigration detention facility on agricultural land just outside Gilroy city limits, vowing to fight the project in...

Watsonville Community Hospital has been awarded $10.6 million through California's Distressed Hospital Small Grant Program, part of a state effort to help financially struggling hospitals avoid closure. The funding was announced Friday as part of a $25 million statewide program created through Assembly Bill 108,...

Work is moving forward on the Watsonville City Plaza revitalization project that will preserve the historic hub of downtown for years to come. On Tuesday crews from Selden & Son were joined by city officials to get an in-depth view of what the job entails....

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees on May 20 approved a new deputy superintendent position responsible for overseeing the Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Development and Special Education departments. Mark Herbst, most recently the associate superintendent of student support services for Modesto City...

Mads Realmuto will be the first to say he prefers to stay out of the spotlight. His career in international public affairs allowed him to do just that, staying behind the scenes as he helped others further the goals of the organizations and companies for...

Second Harvest Food Bank hosted a free pop-up diaper distribution for families in need Tuesday at Watsonville Community Hospital.  According to the National Diaper Bank Network, nearly one in two U.S. households with young children endure “diaper insecurity,” Luisa Olivares of Second Harvest said.  So far...

The vacant 2.75-acre property on Airport Boulevard across from the Freedom Centre shopping plaza has long been the site of a homeless encampment that troubled residents and plagued city officials, who struggled to balance helping unhoused residents with protecting the land from the impacts...

A 21-year-old Watsonville man was arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of threatening a mass shooting at an unspecified Pajaro Valley Unified School District graduation ceremony. Moises Resendiz was charged with making criminal threats, a felony. He was booked into Santa Cruz County Jail and was...