4-car crash snarls morning commute
The California Highway Patrol sorts out a four-vehicle crash on Highway 1 just south of 41st Avenue in Capitola Monday morning.
County arts and culture institutions welcome back visitors
After more than a year of closures due to Covid-19, museums, galleries and other cultural institutions across Santa Cruz County are once again opening their doors to visitors. To further encourage people to return, they have come together to create Santa Cruz Museum Month.
Throughout...
Spelling out the drama
Watsonville High School's “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” opens on April 17.
Further evaluation needed in assault on deputy case
Jessica May Lowe made her second appearance in Superior Court Tuesday where a new date of Sept. 7 was set for further arraignment following psychological evaluation.
PHOTO: Opening up on Open Streets
Briana Zamora, 5, tries her hand at a drum circle as put on by Ikuyo Conant and Watsonville Taiko Sunday during the annual Open Streets festivities in Watsonville.
Watsonville resident takes to the sky on 92nd birthday
Marie Roberts was just 3 years old when she first started to dream of flying.
Born in Nebraska in 1928, Roberts watched her father install a large, multi-unit birdhouse in their home’s yard. She was immediately transfixed.
“I looked up at those creatures and I started...
New shipping racks ease local rail
On Tuesday, a small group of railroad and warehouse officials from Chicago—and one from Felton—gathered in the S. Martinelli & Co. warehouse in Watsonville to watch as workers loaded a rail car with pallets full of apple juice and other products for an 8-day...
Multiple dead in Pennsylvania synagogue shooting
A gunman is in custody in Pittsburgh, Penn. after he reportedly burst into a synagogue heavily armed and opened fire on the congregation Saturday.
Man shot in downtown Watsonville
Police conceal a crime scene on the 100 block of West Fifth Street after a man was shot in his vehicle just after 5 p.m. on Friday.
Watsonville City Council to mull plastic bag, oversize vehicle parking ordinances
The Watsonville City Council on Tuesday is set to consider two ordinances aimed at reducing plastic waste at retail checkouts and tightening rules on...




















