City interns complete inaugural program
Twenty local high school students graduated from the inaugural Summer in the City Internship Program on Friday.
Into the woods: Watsonville to plant thousands of new trees
Over the next two decades, the city of Watsonville plans to add thousands of trees to its landscape, create a plan to take care of them and train crews of young people to aid in that effort.
This comes thanks to the city’s Urban Forest...
Attorneys wrap up months-long Adrian Gonzalez trial
Prosecution and defense painted sharply varying pictures of Adrian “A.J.”Gonzalez in closing arguments in Superior Court Tuesday, and a jury will now determine whether the 25-year-old can be released after serving his sentence for the 2015 murder of 8-year-old Madyson “Maddy” Middleton.
Prosecutor Tara George...
County leaders to push for changes to flood control funding
WATSONVILLE—The National Association of Counties (NACo) recently renewed its call to have the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers change how it distributes its flood control funding.
Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zach Friend, a NACo board member, says that, too often, funding decisions for federal flood...
New Music Works kicks off 40th season
"October Surprise" concert to be held at the UCSC Music Recital Hall Oct. 13.
Volunteers gather to repair vandalized Black Lives Matter mural
Around 300 people joined forces to repair a giant Black Lives Matter mural Sunday in downtown Santa Cruz.
The work was a community response to the mural being damaged by two men in what prosecutors described as a hate crime for felony vandalism when they...
Campaign begins for Watsonville Hospital’s Measure N
The governing body that oversees Watsonville Community Hospital has brought the institution back from bankruptcy and the brink of closure since it gained control of the institution last year, and restored local control after years of corporate mismanagement.
But with a lasting $6.7 million debt...
County Supervisors adopt E-bike rules
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a new ordinance that prohibits E-bikes from most places where pedestrians walk, with some exceptions.
In approving Santa Cruz County Code 9.54, the supervisors expanded the previous rule governing motorized bikes and expanded it...
Grit N Grace Academy becomes first all-girls wrestling gym in downtown...
Once upon a time in the early 2000s, Becky Clark was forced to enter a space dedicated to mostly oversized teenage boys tossing and...
