Supporting small businesses
For the first time, the East Lake Village Shopping Center will attempt to draw in shoppers for Small Business Saturday with a variety of deals and activities.
Five hurt in ag chemical spray
Five field workers were slightly injured Thursday after being exposed to a spray agricultural treatment on a berry farm on Wagner Avenue at East Lake Avenue.
Dance Week kicks off in Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Dance Week unfolds on three open air stages on Pacific Avenue and Cooper Street through April 28.
Bridge Street median project nears completion
WATSONVILLE—A three-phase, two-year project to beautify the lengthy median strip that divides the east and westbound lanes of Bridge Street will wrap up Thursday.
Michael Johnson of Watsonville’s landscape water conservation program said the project began in 2019 at Bridge Street and Joyce Drive. It...
Mural ushers in new Silver Circle room at Watsonville Hospital
WATSONVILLE—A group of four local artists is creating a mural inside the Community Health Trust of Pajaro Valley’s (CHT) building at Watsonville Hospital (WCH), where the volunteer-led Silver Circle senior program has found a new home.
Kati D’Amore, Joyce Oroz, Linda Bjornson and Joanne Andrews...
Photo: Home burglary interrupted
Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputies search an area on the 500 block of Wheelock Road Tuesday in search of two suspects who tried to break into a home.
The Sheriff's Office said that a man was interrupted trying to burglarize the home on Green...
Pajaro basketball tournament returns
The Together in Pajaro Classic will return for its second year on Saturday.
Youth-inspired diversity mural completed
A crowd gathered inside the Louden Nelson Community Center on Saturday before heading outside to ceremoniously cut a rainbow ribbon in front of a completed mural.
PHOTO: SUV careens into drainage ditch
The California Highway Patrol investigates a solo-vehicle crash on Beach Road Monday.
Police looking for Utah woman missing from Rio Del Mar State...
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office is looking for Danielle Staley, 35, who was last seen on Nov. 6, around 11:23pm near Rio Del...




















