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Watsonville Police on Monday arrested a man wanted on a warrant out of Merced after a brief chase. Angel Sanchez was booked into Santa Cruz County Jail to await extradition to Merced, Watsonville Police Sgt. Brian Ridgway said. A witness who asked not to be identified...

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...

I saw groups of people hanging out in the City Plaza downtown today. Scores of shoppers came and went from the Target store on Main Street. At times traffic looked near normal along Main Street and Freedom Boulevard. I saw a line of about...

After 12 years of running Watsonville’s only bookstore, Kelly Pleskunas will hang up her closed sign at Kelly’s Books for the last time Nov. 4. “I want to send a heartfelt thank you to all the customers who have supported me these past 12 years,”...

Only two months into 2019, Watsonville has exceeded its carbon emission reduction goal, Assistant Public Works Director Michelle Templeton told the council Tuesday.

Concerns about parking, traffic, water use and changes to the village’s “character” were all at the forefront following the developer’s presentation of its conceptual designs for the repurposing of a parking lot at 120 Monterey Ave. — once the location of the Capitola Theater.

Weekly events calendar for Sept. 7-13

A young great white shark died after it washed ashore Friday at Pleasure Point in Capitola.