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Traffic is channeled into one lane in each direction in what once was both southbound lanes of Freedom Boulevard Thursday as major improvement work continues. Joshua Nol of McKim Corporation said all traffic has been shifted to the west side of the road, while...

The Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter has taken a new step in its mission to support the county’s neediest animals.

A 31-year-old Watsonville man died Friday night when he crashed his motorcycle on Highway 1 in Santa Cruz.

WATSONVILLE—Watsonville Fire Department will soon take on a new firefighter/paramedic after he completed the 16-week training academy at Watsonville Fire Station No. 2 on Airport Boulevard on Dec. 2. Adrian Chairez, of Santa Cruz, and three other trainees were officially presented with their badges at...

For the past two weeks, Pajaro Valley Unified District (PVUSD) students have been hard at work designing and creating inside of the old woodshop building at E.A. Hall Middle School.  PVUSD’s summer Boys and Girls In Engineering camps, led by Cabrillo College instructor Rhoxanne Morris...

Observations from across the Pajaro Valley and beyond.

Tarmo Hannula: I was passing through the office at Watsonville High School the other day and spotted a collection of patches from over the years sitting on a counter. These moments are always a great surprise for me because they’re so packed full of...

In the early days of the AIDS crisis, a group of local leaders went to school officials to offer HIV prevention education. The response they got showed them how much that education—and of LGBT issues in general—were needed. “They said, ‘you don’t need to do HIV...

WATSONVILLE—Work began over the weekend on a major restoration of a long-standing outdoor mural at the La Manzana center. Muralist Guillermo “Yermo” Aranda, who is the creative drive behind scores of murals around Santa Cruz County, Salinas and San Diego, said it was time to...