Sheriff’s Office seeks suspect in recent Live Oak shooting
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s detectives on Wednesday identified Patrick Diaz, 29, as a suspect in a Jan. 13 shooting that occurred on the 2500 block of Soquel Drive in Live Oak.
Daniel Anthony Tostado, 19, of Watsonville, was arrested on Feb. 16 in...
FEMA center opens to assist Pajaro flood victims
WATSONVILLE—A disaster recovery center opened in downtown Watsonville on Friday to direct Pajaro flood victims to federal relief programs.
The center, operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is open daily (except April 9) from 9am to 7pm at Old City Hall, 250 Main St....
PVUSD hands charter more classrooms
WATSONVILLE—The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved a plan to give additional space to its newest charter school.
Watsonville Prep School—which already occupies seven portable classrooms at E.A. Hall Middle School—will now take another four rooms at Ann Soldo Elementary...
Watsonville native celebrates Bay Area premiere of play
On July 11, "Hold These Truths" will have its Bay Area premier at TheatreWorks Sillicon Valley.
Watsonville Film Festival 2021 – Movie Trailers
https://player.vimeo.com/video/363839532
Cholitas: Five indigenous Bolivian women, or cholitas, set out to climb the highest peak of the Americas, Mount Aconcagua. 82 minutes. In Spanish & Aymara with English and Spanish subtitles. En español y aymara con subtítulos en inglés. Watch CHOLITAS_trailer or watch full film in...
Fully vaccinated people can have small gatherings indoors, CDC says
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday issued long-awaited guidance to Americans fully vaccinated against Covid-19, freeing them to take some liberties that the unvaccinated should not, including gathering indoors with others who are fully vaccinated without precautions while still adhering to...
Twin Lakes Church project raises 1M pounds for food bank, $100K for fire relief
Twin Lakes Church’s “Kindness Projects” raised more than one million pounds of food for Second Harvest Food Bank, $104,000 for Northern California fire relief and more, the church announced recently.
Pipeline to go under Highway 1
Work is underway to bore a tunnel under Highway 1 in Watsonville, which is part of the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency’s College Lake Water Supply pipeline project.
The weeks-long tunnel job, just south of Riverside Drive, will not interrupt Highway 1 traffic flow, said...
Presentation to outline affordable housing in South County
"No Place Like Home," a presentation about affordable housing in South County, will be held Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. at the Watsonville Civic Plaza Community Room, 275 Main St., fourth floor.
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...




















