Hernandez maintains lead for Cabrillo Board seat
Editor's note: Updated results of this race can be found here.
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—Felipe Hernandez, who has served as a member of the Watsonville City Council since 2012, including a stint as mayor, is maintaining a lead over incumbent Leticia Mendoza for Cabrillo College Governing...
Disaster relief funds benefit Pajaro flood victims
PAJARO—Community Foundations in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties have teamed up to distribute funding to nonprofits that are aiding flood recovery efforts in Pajaro.
The Community Foundation for Monterey County and Community Foundation Santa Cruz County each activated funds to support storm and flood relief...
Deputies arrest 5 suspected looters as CZU Lightning Complex fires grow
SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS—Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputies on Friday arrested five people suspected of looting evacuated homes on Fall Creek Drive, a small community in the Santa Cruz Mountains near Felton.
Jose Gandarilla, Susana Luna, Crystal Araujo, Sara Loretz and Crystle Parstch-Lucchesi face numerous felony...
Second Harvest calls in National Guard to help with distribution
WATSONVILLE—Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County has a message for the community: the California National Guard members stationed there are not there to protect food supplies, and they are not there to enforce the statewide shelter-in-pace order.
And they are not there for...
Camp Krem in need of help for rebuild
When the Santa Cruz Mountains caught fire in August after a lightning storm passed through the Central Coast and greater Bay Area, almost every community was forced to evacuate the area. Many of those evacuees were left wondering whether their homes and businesses—their life’s...
County supervisors wrap-up: nitrous oxide, changes at the Health Services Agency
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed an ordinance that would prohibit the sale of recreational nitrous oxide, and also made changes to lab services in the Health Services Agency.
The supervisors agreed to outsource the Health Services Agency’s (HSA) laboratory services...
Briefs: Polka band to perform at Oktoberfest Santa Cruz
Polka band to perform at Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest returns to Messiah Lutheran Church, 801 High St. in Santa Cruz, on Sept. 30 from noon to 4pm.
The event will feature German food, beer and wine, along with various activities for children and families.
The Thirsty Nine polka band...
Watsonville High community reeling from 4 recent, sudden deaths
WATSONVILLE—The Watsonville High School community is reeling from the loss of four staff members that occurred over the past nine months.
History and economics teacher Abel Mejia died on Sept. 16, and his brother Ruben Mejia, a biology teacher, died on Sept. 5.
Their deaths came after...
K9 helps nab suspect, find drugs, cash, gun
A man was arrested Dec. 4 after Monterey County Sheriff's deputies found drugs, cash and a loaded gun in a vehicle.
Around 3:15pm, detectives with...
