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Officials in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties will conduct a test of the Wireless Emergency Alert system on Thursday, sending emergency messages to mobile phones in flood inundation zones near the Pajaro River. The test is scheduled for about 3pm and is part of ongoing...

Tarmo Hannula: Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico’s former public security secretary, the very man who brazenly took on Mexico’s chief drug traffickers, has now been arrested and charged with taking millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel, the New York Times reported. His...

Local cultural organization Senderos of Santa Cruz will be holding its annual “December in Mexico” performance at the Harbor High School Theater, 300 La Fonda Ave., on Friday and Saturday.

WATSONVILLE—Earlier this year, Santa Cruz County was presented with the challenging task of raising $67 million to purchase and subsequently save Watsonville Community Hospital (WCH). Since the February 2022 formation of the Pajaro Valley Health Care District (PVHCD)—an organization aiming to advocate for community-led, nonprofit...

WATSONVILLE—Chevrolet of Watsonville took a giant step up in the world of auto mechanics last week as one of their mechanics, Richard Shephard, was awarded a World Class Technician status award by officials from General Motors and Chevrolet. “There’s a lot of time, a lot...

Update (3:45pm, Oct. 7) Santa Cruz County health officials announced Wednesday that five more residents of Watsonville Nursing Center and Post Acute Center have either died from Covid-19 or died with Covid-19 listed as a contributing cause, bringing the death toll at the skilled nursing...

Photo by Tarmo Hannula of The Pajaronian - An early-morning fire tore through a home at 41 San Juan Road in Pajaro Wednesday. North Monterey County Fire Division Chief Jess Cortez said no-one was injured in the blaze at the corner of Gonda Street....

WATSONVILLE—On Aug. 28, Watsonville is in the Heart will host a Community Call Out event. Join organizers to share family artifacts, documents, vintage photographs and oral stories from the Manong Generation of the Pajaro Valley, to be preserved in the digital archive and a 2022...

A group that studies and archives the history of local Filipino people—and provides educational materials of that history—on Wednesday suspended its work with Pajaro Valley Unified School District, alleging that the Board of Trustees erred when they rejected a contract renewal for an ethnic...

A man was taken to the hospital late Tuesday morning after a fight with two suspects.