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Effective Nov. 30, The Pajaronian will close its rented office on Brennan Street and join the company’s other Santa Cruz County publications at its Santa Cruz office at 107 Dakota St. But Pajaronian writers and advertising personnel will continue to work in Watsonville in the...

Firefighters from several agencies tackle a fire that broke out in an abandoned building at 29 Rancho Road in Watsonville Monday morning.

Nelly Vaquera-Boggs (right), president of the Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers, stands with union members from the Pajaro Valley Unified School District on March 18 in San Francisco during a three-day convention of the California Federation of Teachers. The event served as a stage...

The former owners of Watsonville Community Hospital are facing a lawsuit alleging that they took more than $3.9 million for their own use, and that their mismanagement led the hospital  to bankruptcy and to the brink of financial ruin. Halsen Healthcare was removed from its...

WATSONVILLE—Watsonville High School graduate Kayla Cabrera will be attending virtual classes at UC Berkeley when the fall semester begins on Oct. 1, where she will double major in legal and ethnic studies for a pre-law track. Inspired by social justice issues she encountered while growing...

Second Harvest Food Bank is still in its most intense time of the year, where it is asking the community to organize the dozens of local food and fund drives throughout the county, in an annual program known as the Holiday Food and Fund Drive.

In March, KDUB 99.9 FM presented a job fair at the Appleton Grill in downtown Watsonville, where about a dozen companies looked to fill a number of positions, and job seekers were able to find their future employer.

WATSONVILLE — Workers at Lakeside Organic Gardens of Watsonville were honored with a hot lunch served at the edge of a farm Thursday. The annual gesture is a way for the folks at Charlie Hong Kong Restaurant of Santa Cruz, who served the meal, to give tha