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About 50 people from three Watsonville  senior communities met at the Pajaro Village Club House Monday evening to voice their concerns about agricultural pesticide use near their homes and in the surrounding Pajaro Valley. The meeting included Santa Cruz County Agricultural Commissioner David Sanford and...

Watsonville Fire Chief Rudy López has announced his retirement after 35 years of service to the community. His retirement will be effective Dec. 31.  López began his career in 1990 as a reserve Watsonville firefighter, and advanced through the ranks, serving as firefighter, captain and...

PAJARO—A little more than a month after the Pajaro Levee broke and released waves of roiling river water that laid waste to homes, businesses and crops in Pajaro, a group of local, state and federal lawmakers gathered near the river in Monterey County on...

WATSONVILLE—In a special meeting as unpredictable as it was tense, Watsonville City Council could not come to a consensus on a deal that would have made a minor alteration to a critical ballot measure for the Nov. 8 election. The elected leaders on Thursday neither...

A Santa Cruz man was arrested Saturday night after allegedly injuring three pedestrians while driving drunk, California Highway Patrol officer Julieta Trenado said.

About 100,000 years ago, American mastodons roamed California, using their giant trunks and teeth to graze upon the trees growing in forests and wetlands. While they share their ancestry with today’s elephants, they were larger. The males stood as high as seven feet and weighed...

The Watsonville Strawberry Festival is returning in full force this year, back to a three-day event for the first time since 2019.  The popular event runs this Friday through Sunday and will include food booths, many featuring strawberry-themed treats, as well as a beer garden,...