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A state nonprofit that aims to reduce and eliminate the use of dangerous pesticides on agricultural fields in California plans to sue the agency tasked with regulating them. The announcement came Tuesday during a press conference convened in Watsonville by Californians for Pesticide Reform. Mark Weller,...

The 18th annual Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival begins on Sunday and will run through May 4.

One year ago, Watsonville’s Annieglass installed 249 solar panels on the factory’s roof, a 16,000-square-foot project that has reduced the company’s annual electricity bill by more than 86%. The $320,000 project came thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of...

WATSONVILLE—The stage was set for Pajaro Valley High senior Martin Gonzalez and the Grizzlies’ football team as they finally got a chance to play a home game on their own campus for the first time in the program’s history. The Grizzlies left their fans more...

In the wake of last year’s rains that battered the Santa Cruz Mountains, Stephanie and Dave Casper of Aptos were eager to bring a bit of light to their community this holiday season. Unfortunately, someone chose to intervene.

The Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust's annual fundraiser, An Evening of Wine and Roses, is scheduled for Nov. 2 from 6–9 p.m. at the Crosetti Building at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds.

A census of Santa Cruz County’s homeless population taken in February shows a 21.5% decline since the last count in 2021. Still, one in every 146 Santa Cruz County residents still do not have access to housing, according to the 2023 Homeless Count and Survey,...

WATSONVILLE—The two women nominated as veterans of the year for the Veteran of Foreign Wars Post 1716 and American Legion Post 121 say they chose to join the military for similar reasons: neither knew what they wanted to do when high school ended. But once...

Plaza decoration begins; tree lighting set for Nov. 24 WATSONVILLE—Downtown Watsonville was bustling with activity Tuesday morning as a 30-foot Blue Spruce arrived, carefully wrapped and attached to the back of a large tow truck. Workers from Auto Care Towing meticulously attached ropes and pulleys to...

The Flying A station was built between 1926 and 1927, and was last used in 1989, where it originally stood at the corner of  Main and Fifth streets.   It began as Mellander and Brown’s Associated Gas, and was later known as the “Flying A”...