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Santa Cruz METRO and the union protecting the fixed-route bus operators on Aug. 23 finalized a three-year labor agreement that is expected to alleviate the recent uptick in delays and cancelations in the county’s public transportation system.

Work continues on the major rebuild of the Watsonville High cafeteria and multipurpose room. • I saw on the morning news that one of five people has Covid-19 in Florida. Officials in that state were among the first to rush into reopening, claiming the lockdown was...

PASATIEMPO—A man and a woman have been arrested in a suspected homicide that took place Tuesday on the 800 block of Graham Hill Road. Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Ashley Kheen said detectives arrested Caitlin Crenshaw and Cody Huynh, both 23-year-old transients, in San...

With sunshine interspersed with scattered showers expected to last through Monday, another storm anticipated to hit the Central Coast early Tuesday will bring up to eight inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and at least three inches to the rest of Santa Cruz County. The...

WATSONVILLE—A Watsonville gang member who led officers on a brief foot chase on New Year’s Day has been booked into the Santa Cruz County Jail. Geovanni Lopez, 32, faces several charges, including being a felon in possession of a firearm and resisting arrest. Lopez, who had...

Rachel Kippen will take over the helm of O’Neill Sea Odyssey in March when founding director Dan Haifley retires, the organization announced Tuesday.

Note: Reporter Tony Nuñez contributed to this story WATSONVILLE—Thousands of Santa Cruz County residents living in the county’s northern reaches have been ordered to evacuate as the CZU August Lightning Complex fires have spread throughout the Santa Cruz Mountains. Temporary shelters have been set up across...

The new center will include a 30-bed residential treatment building, therapy rooms and a medical clinic.

In the next 90 days the National 9 Motel at 1 Western Drive will be demolished to make way for a four-story, 80-room Hilton Home2 Suites, according to Kamalesh Patel, of Hospitality AARAV, LLC.

CALIFORNIA—Bishop Jaime Soto of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, along with 1,000 other faith and community leaders from the California Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), on Tuesday will convene with state legislators on Zoom to call for more support for undocumented immigrants during the...