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September 21, 2025

Emergency dispatchers: Man shot in strawberry field

A gunshot victim showed up at the Watsonville Community Hospital emergency room around 4:30 a.m. Sunday.

Heat wave will be tempered by coastal marine layer, meteorologists say

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CENTRAL COAST—The heat wave expected to bake the inland parts of the Bay Area with temperatures as high as 110 degrees will largely miss Monterey Bay, thanks to the marine layer for which Santa Cruz County is known. National Weather Service meteorologist Gerry Diaz says...

Our Community Reads selects book for 2018

For the next couple of months, community members will come together for a variety of events, all centered around a single book.

PVUSD restructures upper-level positions

When thousands of Pajaro Valley Unified School District students return to school on Aug. 14, they will likely meet their teachers, pick up armloads of books and greet friends they haven’t seen in weeks. What they may not notice is the sizable behind-the-scenes transformation that...

Oral health team makes progress

The number of Santa Cruz County residents on Medi-Cal who have gone to the dentist increased by 20 percent since 2014, Oral Health Access Santa Cruz County announced in its recently released 2018 Report Card.

Honoring MLK: Hundreds attend annual march in Santa Cruz

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Before hundreds of people began a march Monday morning in downtown Santa Cruz to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a solemn hush fell over the crowd as political chanting briefly ceased and the good-natured whooping died down.  “Finally,” 6-year-old Brianna Hodgkins said, sitting astride...

KSQD flooded

KSQD treasurer Mathilde Rand
Sometime during the late-night hours Sunday, as hours-long rainfall pounded the Central Coast, water gushed through a telecommunications conduit leading into KSQD radio station, flooding the studio floors and sending the few staffers that were working scrambling to get sensitive electronic equipment off the...

Community briefs, Oct. 24: Youth strings program presents concert

Community briefs, Oct. 24, 2017
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Man arrested in Capitola assault

A Capitola man was arrested after he allegedly assaulted two people with a metal pipe on Sept. 18. Antwain Tiliman, 55, was charged with attempted...