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WATSONVILLE—Every year during the month of October, the Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s Office sends daily statistics to local media, counting the domestic violence calls to which county law enforcement officials respond. It is a grim tally and a reminder during Domestic Violence Awareness Month...

Two new water tanks recently installed at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds — together totaling 130,000 gallons — are big enough to provide water for two days during fair time, should a power outage disable the pumps.

The sound of engines roared across East Lake Village’s parking lot Sunday morning as classic cars and trucks arrived in droves.

WATSONVILLE—Carol Heitzig said that she doesn't like to travel. “I’ve barely been out of the state,” Heitzig said. But for the past 48 years, she has helped old, young and everyone in between see the world, travel through time and explore the universe as an unsung...

CALIFORNIA—Vincent Marquez will be the first to say he has not led a perfect life.  He is in Soledad State Prison for a 2008 burglary conviction, serving sentences totaling more than four decades that could keep the 65-year-old incarcerated until 2041. But he hopes to change...

I see that The Chop Shop barbershop is close to opening in the former Plaza Jewelers on the ground floor of the Resetar Hotel on Main Street at West Lake Avenue. The jewelry store moved nearby to East Fifth Street. • Renovation work continues on Taqueria...

WATSONVILLE—In the days after California began to offer Covid-19 vaccines for children 12 and older, thousands across the state lined up for their turn. In Santa Cruz County, a total of 1,200 young people got their vaccines at Scotts Valley High School, Dominican Hospital’s Employee...

Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Santa Cruz Monday morning to participate in Santa Cruz’s second annual Martin Luther King Jr. march.

SALINAS — The two men that escaped from the Monterey County Adult Detention Facility early Saturday have been captured. The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said 21-year-old Santos Samuel Fonseca and 20-year-old Jonathan Salazar, who were both awaiting trial on unrelated murder charges and other felony...

A Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge on Friday rejected a legal challenge to an earlier decision by the Regional Transportation Commission to enter an agreement with a rail operator to operate on the tracks that run from Watsonville to Davenport.