County Supervisors reverse course, approve key stretch of rail-trail
A portion of the Coastal Rail Trail project running through the middle part of the county will now move forward after the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved it.
The supervisors also voted to withdraw an earlier vote that stalled the project, and...
What's Going On? | Aug. 10-16, 2019
Find out what's going on in the Pajaro Valley and beyond this week.
Campaign begins for Watsonville Hospital’s Measure N
The governing body that oversees Watsonville Community Hospital has brought the institution back from bankruptcy and the brink of closure since it gained control of the institution last year, and restored local control after years of corporate mismanagement.
But with a lasting $6.7 million debt...
City interns complete inaugural program
Twenty local high school students graduated from the inaugural Summer in the City Internship Program on Friday.
Annual homeless census shows positive trends, with bad news
After Santa Cruz County last year saw a drop in the numbers of unhoused people, the numbers this year from the annual Point In Time (PIT) count conducted in January stayed mostly static.
The PIT Count is an estimate of the number of people experiencing...
New website, new logo for the city of Watsonville aims for easy
The City of Watsonville on Tuesday announced “big changes” for its communication efforts, with a new website, community newsletter and a new city logo.
Volunteers gather to repair vandalized Black Lives Matter mural
Around 300 people joined forces to repair a giant Black Lives Matter mural Sunday in downtown Santa Cruz.
The work was a community response to the mural being damaged by two men in what prosecutors described as a hate crime for felony vandalism when they...
Twin Lakes Church project raises 1M pounds for food bank, $100K for fire relief
Twin Lakes Church’s “Kindness Projects” raised more than one million pounds of food for Second Harvest Food Bank, $104,000 for Northern California fire relief and more, the church announced recently.
PHOTO: Woodies benefit Pajaro flood relief efforts
More than 200 classic wood-bodied vehicles converged on the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf on Saturday for the 27th annual Woodies on the Wharf. Organized by the Santa Cruz Woodies Club and City of Santa Cruz, the event drew participants from across the West Coast...
Philanthropist, publisher Rowland Rebele dies
Rowland Rebele, a publisher and philanthropist who wanted to give away all of his money before he passed away, died Saturday at the age of 93.
“Reb,” as he liked to be called, served in the U.S. Navy and attended Stanford University before embarking on...
Female Athlete of the Year: Aptos’ Izzy Graff brought excellence to...
Aptos graduate Izzy Graff was on the verge of joining the cross country team going into her junior year in 2023 so she could...