At-home Covid-19 tests change pandemic response
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—At least 4,000 Santa Cruz County residents have been infected with Covid-19 during the current winter surge sparked by the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus.
That figure posted to the County Health Services Agency’s online dashboard, however, is likely vastly...
New Music Works to present intimate South County concert
New Music Works of Santa Cruz will host a special, intimate home recital on Sept. 7 featuring pianist Sarah Cahill.
Pajaro Valley High lauds four of its Grizzlies
From the 2025 graduating senior class of Pajaro Valley High School in Watsonville, four students shared their high school experiences and plans for after graduation.
Valedictorian Rosario Lopez-Garcia, 17, graduated with a GPA of 4.37.
She plans to attend Stanford University in the fall, where she...
Hundreds attend annual MLK march
SANTA CRUZ—Hundreds of people filled the streets of downtown Santa Cruz Monday to participate in the third-annual Martin Luther King march, an event co-sponsored by the NAACP and the Santa Cruz Police Department.
“This is a business model of the Santa Cruz Police Department,” said...
Serious injuries in Highway 1 rollover
APTOS -- Emergency officials responded to a solo-vehicle crash on Highway 1 at Freedom Boulevard on Saturday.
Kitayama Brothers adapts as flower market continues to shift
This year Kitayama Brothers, a cut flower grower based in Watsonville, is celebrating its 73rd year in business.
Not long after World War II, brothers Tom and Ray Kitayama landed in San Francisco’s east bay and began working for Yoshimi Shibata and Dan Shinoda, two...
CZU Lightning Complex Fires hit one-year anniversary
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — Monday marked the one year anniversary of the CZU Lightning Complex Fires that raged through 86,509 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains, killed one man, burned close to 1,500 buildings and stacked up a tab of $2.4 billion in insured...
Cabrillo’s Measure R falling short
APTOS—Results that continued to trickle in Wednesday showed Measure R falling short of the 55 percent it needs to pass.
The $274 million bond measure was created to fund maintenance, construction and infrastructure projects at Cabrillo College’s Aptos and Watsonville campuses. If it manages to...
Kaiser Permanente to offer Medicare in Santa Cruz County
After opening three offices in Santa Cruz County in 2017, Kaiser Permanente announced Monday that it will offer Medicare coverage in 2019.
PHOTO: SUV careens into drainage ditch
The California Highway Patrol investigates a solo-vehicle crash on Beach Road Monday.
PVUSD Trustees to revisit teacher layoff vote
A little more than one week after voting to eliminate roughly 80 teacher positions, the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees will...
