Multiple shots fired into vehicle, two detained, gun recovered
Two suspects were detained Tuesday in Watsonville on suspicion of firing off a string of shots from a gun into a car.
Watsonville Police said the incident unfolded at the corner of Bridge and Secoya streets in the Vista Montaña housing complex around 2:30pm.
Multiple witnesses...
Woman arrested in stabbing
A Watsonville woman was taken into custody on Nov. 1 just past noon on suspicion of stabbing a man multiple times.
Watsonville Police spokeswoman Michelle Pulido said
officers responded to reports of a stabbing in the 100 block of 2nd Street shortly before 12:30pm, where they...
Pajaro River Levee project moves to design phase
WATSONVILLE—After years of waiting, advocating, fighting and fretting, people who live near the Pajaro River – and in the community around it – can breathe a sigh of relief.
That’s after a feasibility report released Thursday by the Army Corps of Engineers, and a separate...
Farm Discovery at Live Earth celebrates the giving season
Pajaro Valley nonprofit Farm Discovery at Live Earth is inviting the community to celebrate another successful year of farm-based education for local youth.
The organization aims to empower young people and their families to build and sustain healthy food, farming, social and natural systems. Children...
Watsonville Prep asks PVUSD for more space
WATSONVILLE—A charter school that opened in Pajaro Valley Unified School District in 2019 – and which was tentatively slated to move into the former Gottschalk’s building on Main Street for the 2020-21 school year – will remain at E.A. Hall Middle School for at...
Mural brightens Watsonville’s Main Street
A new 800-foot mural is in the making on a retaining wall along Main Street between Pennsylvania Drive and Clifford Avenue.
With a theme of Pajaro Pollination, artists from the Made Fresh Crew of Santa Cruz started the project Aug. 15 and brushed on the...
Spanish language bookstore installed in Santa Cruz museum
The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) is home to a new exhibit unlike anything it’s hosted before.
Protesters block businesses, streets as event stretches into evening
A huge, boisterous crowd of people protesting recent arrests of immigrants around the country took their message to the streets Monday following a rally in Watsonville Plaza.
Several thousand people marched along Main Street to the Overlook Center (Target Store) and back again before heading...
County Supervisors approve draft BESS ordinance
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday moved forward with proposed rules aimed at regulating large-scale battery energy storage systems, which if...
